Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs

In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot -- A Wall Street Journal True Crime Bestseller -- does for marijuana smuggling what Blow and Snowblind did for the cocaine trade.