SAILING INTO THE ABYSS. TRUE TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE
TRUE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT VOL 1
This is a life-changing true story of drug-running across the Pacific. A young girl, with a passion for sailing and adventure, gets approached to transport an illegal cargo from Colombia to the US. She battles with storms, snakes, and interminable days at sea whilst facing deprivations barely imaginable, before finally being intercepted by a Mexican gunboat in waters infested with Great White Sharks.
Her subsequent incarceration in Mexico’s most infamous prison, La Mesa, is almost more surprising: the treatment she receives and the people she meets become a transformative experience, as she recounts in this totally compelling personal journey.
This is truly an extraordinary travel and adventure story of a remarkable young woman operating in a man’s world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A LIFE AT SEA
SNAKE ONBOARD
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
MARIJUANA GALORE
STRANDED AT SEA
THE SCREAM AT ISLA GUADALUPE
A MEXICAN GUNBOAT
WELCOME TO MEXICO
HOTEL ENSENADA
THE STRANGE WORLD OF LA MESA TIJUANA
A HOME OF OUR OWN
PRISON POLITICS
AN ANGEL OF GOD
LAWYERS AND LAWYERS
BORN INTO CAPTIVITY
FREEDOM
EPILOGUE
FINAL WORDS –LOOKING BACK
This true life story is told by the author with the help of her sister Judy Marks, who was married for thirty years to the notorious drug smuggler, Howard Marks a.k.a. Mr. Nice.
It is a sailing adventure of smuggling marijuana for adventure, profit and ultimate disaster. It is also a true life prison story that examines crime and punishment, in a Mexican prison horror setting, where Bridget is banged up abroad. It is truly an inspirational story of survival.
Author Biography
After spending twenty-five years living and working on yachts, Bridget Lane and her husband Charles now live a quiet life on land in Brighton, Sussex in the UK. They returned to England to enable their sons to complete their education before enrolling in university courses. The only boating they now do is enjoying peaceful canal holidays in France. Bridget and Charles have recently enjoyed the birth of their first granddaughter.