I Am a Drug Lord: The Last Confession of a Real-Life Underworld Kingpin

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I previously read I Am A Hitman, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so was very much looking forward to reading about the drug world now. Try to lay off the weed while you drive,” I said. “If you get pulled over, even if you toss the joint, the smell can be probable cause. And don’t pull over for any reason.” Listen all you want to the Plus Catalogue—a selection of thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series

A party boy drug dealer who snorted his profits away was caught red-handed with carrier bags full of cocaine and cash. A welcome, lyrical defense of ‘coaxing a beautiful thing out of the ground and bringing it to your door.'” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed in the Bohemian (2/4/2021)Martyn Walsh, defending Marshall, who had one previous conviction for theft from 2011, said his client had always worked hard to provide for his wife and children, and was described as being "a devoted family man". A unique and unbelievable first-hand account of how one man fought his way to the top of the criminal underworld... and what he needed to do to stay there. Also, when you get pulled over – and you’ll get pulled over, because police profile – you must talk in complete sentences, like a college man, never acting like you’re in a hurry. Tell the cop a story about getting home to your parents, a fiancée, kids. Be friendly. They can’t handle that shit.

I found it really interesting as he had quite an unusual upbringing, and historical events had quite a big impact on it. It tells you how his drug dealing operations worked practically but seems to be missing something that stops you from getting a clear picture but I'm not sure what, like maybe the psychology behind it, how people work together, how they're prevented from snitching etc, but maybe it's because of a fear of consequences, or maybe he had quite a sheltered life within the industry compared to other people in it. It still tells you enough to get a general idea and to be interesting. The third car is the load. He’s carrying the shit in the trunk. That’s a rule: No drugs inside the passenger area of a car. A corollary to that is, Always drive a car with a trunk. No SUVs. No Muranos. None of that. An ordinary boring sedan with a trunk. Mr Nutter said the dad-of-one had become addicted to cocaine, adding: "In a sense, it was the biter, bit."I've read a decent amount on the world of narco-crime, with one of the most formative books being ZeroZeroZero, a read that truly exposed the underworkings of something quite complex through an investigative lens. It asks questions about how things work, why things exist, and how power is crucial to both things. Secrets of Drug Dealing Unveiled” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Rising (4/1/2021) Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING featured in Morning Star (7/29/2021) The load car was to be driven by another friend of his, from St. Louis I think. He was practically a high school kid, someone I didn’t know, by the name of Andre. That’s a rule: Dress like an off-duty Applebee’s waiter. I know what that looks like, because, after all, I’ve worked at Applebee’s. I make even shitty jobs like that work for me. Experience is my education and education is my advantage.

Connolly, formerly of Ellerman Road, Liverpool city centre, now of Station Road, Melling, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis, and to convert criminal property. The "bookkeeper" was jailed for 14 and a half years.Dad-of-four Marshall, of Robson Street, Everton, also worked as a "courier" for the gang and made 10 identified trips in these "slot" cars to Cardiff and London. Then I let him in. I figured, well, he’s doing it on the streets, I’ll just level him up a little. Before I knew it, he’d skipped a couple rungs on the ladder. Made him overconfident. I couldn’t keep eyes on him in where he lived, but he was acting like a big fish there, shouting his name to the rooftops, which is what you don’t want to do. Stephen McNally, prosecuting, said Hughes' home in Fazakerley, was used to store large quantities of cash and drugs, where he was "hands on" in weighing and "bashing" - cutting with adulterants - for onward supply.

Mr McNally said: "He said he’d had an EncroChat device for two or three years and been operating at this sort of level for about two years. An intimate and detailed account of the business of grey legal marijuana.” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Stoner (2/5/2021)He said Hughes spent around 75% of his income from selling drugs to feed his own habit, which had made him "vulnerable", and he had to pay for his cocaine. Buddy didn’t have a clue what he was doing. He didn’t know how many grams there were in an ounce, how many ounces in a pound. He didn’t know the difference between profit and loss. Julian Nutter, defending Hughes, said his client's one previous conviction, for drug dealing in Mallorca in 2018, related to him receiving a suspended sentence for having a small amount of MDMA on the Spanish island. Rule: every time you enter a state, change out your cars. Rule: drive rentals but make sure you’ve got in-state plates as often as possible. Iowa cars in Iowa, Colorado cars in Colorado. And so on. And you don’t stop except to sleep and go to the bathroom.