Título: Saltwater Cowboy
Autor: Tim McBride
Sinopse: In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers--middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security--seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out. A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Saltwater Cowboy”, de Tim McBride, publicado pela editora Macmillan + ORM, em 2015 e com 310 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Macmillan + ORM
Páginas: 310
Ano: 2015
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 1466882387
ISBN13: 9781466882386
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Macmillan + ORM apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre o thriller policial tenso e o relato histórico detalhado, com incursões em fantasia urbana e biografias investigativas. A experiência de leitura costuma envolver tramas que desafiam o leitor a acompanhar jogos de mistério, conflitos políticos ou encontros culturais complexos, com ritmo que ora acelera em suspense, ora se detém em análises profundas. As sinopses sugerem um catálogo que privilegia histórias com personagens imersos em dilemas morais e contextos históricos ou contemporâneos marcantes, explorando temas como crime, poder, memória e identidade. Há obras mais narrativas e outras mais informativas, o que indica uma diversidade de estilos e abordagens dentro do mesmo selo.
