Urban Smuggler by Andrew Pritchard
Urban Smuggler chronicles the rollicking life story of one of the most prolific smugglers of our time. After leaving school at 14, Andrew Pritchard started out selling weed at house parties before moving on to run some of the biggest warehouse raves of the acid-house era. The money began to roll in, but with it came trouble, and when someone was murdered at one of his parties he was forced to go on the run to Jamaica.
It was there that Pritchard learned the tricks of the serious smuggling trade, and with corrupt UK Customs officers in his pocket it seemed that nothing could go wrong. But then someone in his network used his supply chain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine. When he went to meet a shipment of 'moody' cigars, he was seized by a Customs task force and arrested when the goods turned out to be half a ton of premium-grade cocaine. Following two controversial trials, Pritchard was acquitted after eighteen months on remand.
In Urban Smuggler, he reveals just how easy it can be to import shiploads of contraband into the UK and exposes the corruption within the law-enforcement agencies tasked to tackle this kind of crime. Here, then, is the inside story of how to become an 'urban smuggler'.
Format: Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.2 x 2 | 362g
Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
Publication City/Country: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Language: English
Illustrations note: colour photos
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1845963105
ISBN13: 9781845963101
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor creasing and very, very minor scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. There is very minor discolouring on the top corner of a handful of pages. No missing pages.