Stone Free: From Choirboy to Ganja Kingpin
Cyclops Productions, 2025. First Edition. Paperback. New. Item #659371
ISBN: 0648952770
New! 'Born Warren Clark Anderson, the course of his life had been set to be another cog in the machine. But his parent's dream of order following years of war collided head-on with the awakening counterculture. Reforged as James 'Abdul' Monroe, he took the less trampled path, emerging not as a compliant citizen but as an outlaw fugitive-and a kingpin in the pan-Pacific dope trade. Stone Free unravels the true-life odyssey of a Californian misfit who walked away from the American Dream in the psychedelic afterglow of the '60s. What began as a search for meaning morphed into one of the boldest marijuana smuggling operations of the twentieth century. As Thai stick grew in legend, Abdul became one of its mythic merchants-moving tons of prized bud to the Western world, while living large in idyllic tropical havens. But living untethered had a price. When Nixon's War on Drugs turned up the heat, Abdul was betrayed by a former friend, bringing a dramatic end to James Monroe. Convicted on major conspiracy to import marijuana into America, inmate 52260-098 was shackled and shuffled through 25 federal prisons-doing time alongside counterculture ghosts like surfing's dark prince, Miki Dora, and the infamous bank robber, Paddy Mitchell. Stone Free is a true-crime odyssey-an elegy for a vanished world-untamed, unrepentant, unforgettable.' [publisher].
Price: $27.00