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"Winner of 2019 IndieReader Discovery Award. Young Americans get involved in a dangerous international heroin smuggling conspiracy. When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he publishes is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling operation and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride that he doesn't know how to get off of. After a bag goes missing in an airport transit lounge, Fillmore is summoned to West Africa to participate in a fetish oath with Nigerian mafia. Bound to drug boss Alhaji, Fillmore returns to Europe to finish the job. But in Chicago O'Hare customs agents ""blitz"" the plane and a courier is arrested. Thus begins a harried yearlong effort to elude the Feds, prison and a looming existential dead end. Smuggler relates the real events hehind OITNB."

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Incredible, cinematic visual details ... An alluring and adventurous ride through a criminal underworld. --Kirkus Reviews From Provincetown to Chicago and Paris to Jakarta, SMUGGLER pulls off a seemingly impossible mix of visceral, emotional, and psychological realism--all without sacrificing the thrill of vicarious transgression or entertainment. Protagonist (and author) Nick Fillmore's reflections and restrictive interactions never bore--and like the narrative--are rich with cutting insight. --IndieReader The book starts glamorous and slow and then accelerates into a dark world where actions have consequences. Nigerian gangsters, black magic, international travels, heroin smuggling, moral justifications and a descent into the inevitable. Excellent writing, believable characters ... an interesting read narrated by a very competent writer. --NetGalley This isn't your usual run-of-the-mill true crime story but a work with true literary style. --Books Direct Riveting. --Bookbub

"""Incredible, cinematic visual details ... An alluring and adventurous ride through a criminal underworld."" --Kirkus Reviews ""From Provincetown to Chicago and Paris to Jakarta, SMUGGLER pulls off a seemingly impossible mix of visceral, emotional, and psychological realism--all without sacrificing the thrill of vicarious transgression or entertainment. Protagonist (and author) Nick Fillmore's reflections and restrictive interactions never bore--and like the narrative--are rich with cutting insight."" --IndieReader ""The book starts glamorous and slow and then accelerates into a dark world where actions have consequences. Nigerian gangsters, black magic, international travels, heroin smuggling, moral justifications and a descent into the inevitable. Excellent writing, believable characters ... an interesting read narrated by a very competent writer."" --NetGalley
 ""This isn't your usual run-of-the-mill true crime story but a work with true literary style."" --Books Direct ""Riveting."" --Bookbub"

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Nicholas Fillmore is a poet, publisher, journalist and professor of English. He lives on windward Oahu with his wife, daughter and dachshunds.

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