Book Review: Mr Nice & Mrs Marks By Judy Marks
Posted by NessWorld on Sep 27, 2009 in Entertainment | 1 comment
Autobiographies are not generally high up on my list of must reads, unless they are by people whom I admire, and whom I feel have made some kind of contribution to the world, or at least people I feel I can learn something from.
It turns out that there’s quite a bit you can learn from a self confessed, convicted marijuana smuggler.
Not the least of which is ‘Don’t Do Drugs’.
As it turns out, it was quite an enjoyable read!
I mean who doesn’t love to hear about an intelligent, fairly like-able guy who makes a lot a money, and lives the ‘high’ life?
Ritzy glamour, plenty of exotic destinations, and cardboard boxes full of money, are the ingredients of his story, which we eat up on every page, and at times, unable to keep up with his legendary spaghetti like network of contacts and deals, and it is a wonder that the police were able to catch him at all.
The saddest part for me, was of course his wife and kids who had to bear the brunt of his lifestyle, when he eventually ended up in jail for his crimes.
I just recently discovered that his wife has told her side of the story too.
Which brings me to the following:
Mr Nice & Mrs Marks: Adventures with Howard
Amazon gives the description below:
Product Description
“Howard Marks’s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world’s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 registered companies.
Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skills, it was estimated that he was trafficking as much as a tenth of all the marijuana smoked in the world. But this is only half the story, for intimately involved throughout was Marks’s wife Judy.
From living the high life hobnobbing with movie stars and nightclub scene-sters to mixing with the IRA and CIA, and finally the long, increasingly desperate years on the run, this memoir is about the exhilaration of the criminal life and the hell of not knowing what’s happening when your husband stops telling you the truth.
Now, for the first time, Judy tells her own side of the tale.”
About the Author
Judy Marks met Howard Marks in 1972 at a dinner party in Brighton when she was 16 and he was 27. They eventually married in 1980.
How do you, as a wife and mother, justify what your husband is doing? Do you even know what he’s up to? Do you simply enjoy the creature comforts and luxurious lifestyle and turn a blind eye to what is really going on?
Do you remain at your core, a wife and mother and simply do your best to keep the family together, regardless of what you know…or don’t know?
As an online magazine for women, it is only prudent that we promote the point of view as seen by Mrs Marks, and I for one, can’t wait to read it!
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