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Product Description: With his drug-smuggling documentary short on financing, moving marijuana seemed the obvious way for cinematographer Allen Long to raise the necessary cash. Millions of dollars later the film had not been made, but Long's own life as a pioneering pot smuggler had played out like a Hollywood movie⦠seat-of-the-pants flights in a decrepit DC3 into the Colombian badlands, numerous near misses with law enforcement⦠fast boats, fashion models, fortunes earned and blown⦠From Mexico to Marin County, from the boardrooms of Manhattan to the midnight streets of Miami, Allen Long's true story is as entertaining as the greatest fiction, a hilarious piece of hair-raising reportage that will keep your pulse racing to the very last page...read more
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9781493500154 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2013, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: With his drug-smuggling documentary short on financing, moving marijuana seemed the obvious way for cinematographer Allen Long to raise the necessary cash.
Product Description: Robbert Sabbag’s Snowblind, the true story of an American smuggler whose intricate, ingenious scams made him a legendary figure in the cocaine world of the late sixties and early seventies, is a modern classic. In this witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale” (Los Angeles Times), Sabbag masterfully traces Zachary Swan’s Roman-candle career, from his first forays into smuggling marijuana to his jaunts to Colombia to buy pure cocaine, and his ever more elaborate plans to outwit the police and customs officials...read more
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9780672520792 | Macmillan Pub Co, December 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists.
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9780802144942 | Grove Pr, June 8, 2010, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Robbert Sabbag’s Snowblind, the true story of an American smuggler whose intricate, ingenious scams made him a legendary figure in the cocaine world of the late sixties and early seventies, is a modern classic.
9780802135896 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists
9780679728641 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists
Product Description: A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survivedAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot died but the copilot and eight passengers survived with trauma both physical and emotional...read more
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9780143117605 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 27, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survivedAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod.
9780156068864, titled "Public Venture Capital: Government Funding Sources for Technology Entrepreneurs/2000 Edition" | Bk&cd rom edition (Harcourt Brace Professional Pub, October 1, 1999), cover price $155.00 | also contains Public Venture Capital: Government Funding Sources for Technology Entrepreneurs/2000 Edition | About this edition: Familiarizes the reader with funding agencies, matching projects with the best source of funds.
Hardcover:
9780670021024 | Viking Pr, June 11, 2009, cover price $25.95
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9781841953793 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, January 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Recounts the exploits of infamous 1970s marijuana smuggler Allen Long, who with a band of associates sought to outmaneuver the law enforcement agencies of America and Colombia against dubious odds.
Product Description: Do you think you have the balls it would take to risk your life for a million dollars?" Allen Long certainly did. Balls like a bull elephant's -- with charisma and cunning in the same large measure. But he needed to know that those around him could handle pressure...read more
Hardcover:
9780756782405 | Diane Pub Co, July 30, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Do you think you have the balls it would take to risk your life for a million dollars?
9780316765114 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A foray into the world of drug smuggling details the escapades of Allen Long, the first American smuggler to bring in a planeload of marijuana from Colombia and the first to capitalize on the growing demand for high-quality pot.
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9780671660949 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Narrates the history of the oldest American law enforcement agency whose responsibilities have changed from pursuing Billy the Kid to governing the Federal Witness Protection Program
Hardcover:
9780671421960 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 1985, cover price $16.95
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