... a narrowing set of options and onrushing endgame.
2019 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner
When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he’s been recruited to edit is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling operation and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride he doesn’t know how to get off of.
After a bag goes missing in an airport transit lounge he is summoned to West Africa to take a voodoo oath with Nigerian mafia. Bound to drug boss Alhaji, he returns to Europe to put the job right, but in Chicago O’Hare customs agents “blitz” the plane and a courier is arrested.
Thus begins a harried yearlong effort to elude the Feds, prison and a looming existential dead end…. Smuggler relates the real events behind OITNB.
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The book starts glamourous and slow and then accelerates into a dark world where actions have consequences.
Nigerian gangsters, black magic, international travels, heroin smuggling, moral justifications and a descent into the inevitable.
Excellent writing, believable characters … an interesting read narrated by a very competent writer.
Relentless velocity drives us from Provincetown to Chicago, Paris to Jakarta, and elsewhere. Sleep is little more than punctuation, until the inevitable pause. Even then, Nick’s reflection and restrictive interactions never bore and—like the narrative—are rich with cutting insight.
"Riveting."
– BookBub
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