Signed Books Howard Marks

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana, in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two bestselling books, became a sports writer and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate in Norwich North, Norwich South, Southampton Test and Neath, applied to become the country's Drug Czar, and embarked on a long-running, sellout series of one-man shows. While performing in his home town of Kenfig Hill, he fell among old friends who made extraordinary claims for Welsh culture. Was Elvis really Welsh? Was there really a tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans? At the same time his elderly aunt told him of his outlaw ancestry: William Owen, the legendary Welsh smuggler, who had operated for some time in South America and his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, the half-brother of Billy the Kid, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia. He decided to explore South America.

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