Howard Marks (1996) The autobiography of a drug dealer, and it's captivating. Howard Marks went from being an Oxford student, to an Oxford academic, to being an international hashish smuggler. Not the world's largest, as his eventual indictment in America had it, but certainly on an epic scale. A lot of the story is quite humdrum, interesting only as background to Marks' own development and personal life. But there are some amazing anecdotes, such as shipping dope into America in the speaker ...