Ebook: Smokescreen

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.;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.