Smokescreen: A True Adventure

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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. Read more... Abstract: 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 Content: Title page also by robert sabbag copyright & permissions dedication table of contents part 1: glamour profession chapter 1: emerald coast chapter 2: el niño perdido chapter 3: aztec two-step chapter 4: cadillac moon chapter 5: give a man enough rope and he'll smoke it chapter 6: smoke of a distant fire part 2: eldorado chapter 7: red, white, and blond chapter 8: pickup at perico chapter 9: automatic pilot chapter 10: smoke and mirrors chapter 11: fire is the test of gold part 3: the lords and the new creatures chapter 12: disposable birds chapter 13: smoke on the water. Chapter 14: violets for your furschapter 15: ceiling zero chapter 16: much have i traveled in the realms of gold epilogue acknowledgments about the author.