Lady Luck watched my back until I met the crazy kids of the Bay Of Pigs Cubans. Then their curse grabbed my balls with El Cobre and Mr. Jake operations. Fuck me! Cubanos didn't even have to be on-site and their evil eye pointed straight up my ass. Thirty-six of my men arrested by every task force known to mankind; DEA, US Customs, FBI and local cops, but not me. I nearly died of hypothermia but made it through that cold dark night. When Rob and I jumped into the Gulf, I was lucky, With a 9mm Beretta pointed at myself and Rob, he dove head-first into the muddy waters and hit a massive wood pylon. With arms outstretched, they snapped along with his fingers and wrists. He busted his nose. Rob broke the surface screaming. He was arrested. When I finally escaped and swam to shore, I called Max Wade who picked me up. He parked his van close to a small store, jumped out and walked in. I slipped into the van, crawled into a ball on the floorboard. Max walked back out with a pack of cigarettes. Once inside he turned on the engine. The hum almost made me fall asleep from sheer exhaustion.

Out of danger, rolling up the highway to Houston, Max finally spoke.

"You my friend are one lucky muthafucker!"

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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.