The times were different when I began. Like the Wild West, the borders didn’t keep us from smuggling over a million pounds of pot or curb my hunger through a fifteen-year thrill-ride. I give no excuse for what I did. I adapted as a snake would to the shedding of his dead skin of the past for the commanding serpent who could build from scratch a billion dollar company. My heart never skipped a beat, never lost the desire for love, but I couldn’t stop. Not until now, when the heat was on my ass and my soul was dying from the loneliness a barren existence creates. Every fucking beat of my heart became my strength and my downfall lasting decades. Even now, when I talk with my buddies who worked for me during my rise, it’s like talking about a summer at camp. Only the canoes were barges and the cops were FBI, DEA, U.S. Customs, Border patrol and local law enforcement. And we didn’t wear scout uniforms. I could afford Armani, Bruno Maglis, Patek Phillipe of solid gold. I had morphed from Steven Kalish, thirty-one years old, into the money-laundering, drug smuggler Frank Brown when all I really wanted to do was go home. But that would never come true. I was a Federal Fugitive on the Most Wanted list.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LARGEST DRUG SMUGGLING RING EVER DISCOVERED IN THE UNITED STATES...... COMING 2017-2018 the non-fiction crime book about one of the most compelling stories in the twentieth century "The Last Gentleman Smuggler" by former Texans Steven M. Kalish, one of the largest pot smugglers and money-laundering masters in US history, and Nikki Palomino, award-winning author/filmmaker DAZED Novel Trilogy, rock journalist, former grunge rock musician/radio personality. The book/film/TV series "The Last Gentleman Smuggler" will be a thrill-ride about the rogue American white boy who at fifteen dropped out of a Houston High School to enter the US War on Drugs laundering money equaled to the drug kingpins. Unforgettable!!!!!!

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July 25, 1984 Steven Kalish stands at the absolute pinnacle of his career just one day before his arrest in Tampa, Florida as Frank Brown money-laundering CEO for Panama’s BCCI bank, and seventy-two hours from launching a one-million-pound pot importation from Colombia to a turkey farm on the Missouri River. Also in-place are plans to import another four-hundred thousand pounds to be loaded in twenty steel containers, placed onto a containerized cargo ship, and moved from Turbo, Colombia to New York City. A fifteen-year-old Houston, Texas high school drop-out, the rogue American white boy heads straight to the top of International drug smuggling at a time when the U.S. War on Drugs digs its claws into the obscene flow of illegal profits. Kalish wants to stop the insane thrill-ride for which few men leave alive. The difference between other smugglers and Kalish is his intelligence and ability to negotiate, his honor and motto No guns; No violence. What begins as a belief in the legality of an innocuous plant spirals him into the web of cartels, dictators and an endless stream of money. His fifteen-year outlaw lifestyle forces this successful smuggler to question the cost. But unbeknownst to Kalish, the DEA, the FBI, Custom Agents and local law enforcement, the U.S. government has other plans for the last gentleman smuggler.

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