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Saltwater Cowboy

The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire

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Saltwater Cowboy

By: Tim McBride, Ralph Berrier Jr.
Narrated by: Wes Talbot
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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was 21, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit.

McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers - middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security - seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands.

Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him.

McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy", he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out.

A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.

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A well-told autobiographical story of the Marijuana cowboys from Everglade City! Must read if you live near there!

A must read for anyone familiar with SWFL!

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Great read, highly recommended! First smoke of day Podcast made me want to read the book after listening to your story and i do not regret it one bit!

FSOTD gang

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Pretty captivating stuff. This kept my attention as well as watching a good movie! Well written!

Cool story!

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I love the epilogue,very opinionated and very educating .if you like stories of Miami this is your book

Best read

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The narrator is good the story is excellent you will enjoy this so worth the credit!

Outstanding!!!

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great story read with as much enthusiasm as ben stein. loved the details. .

i guess accountants shouldnt read audio books

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I loved this book. it had me laughing and in suspense. I highly recommend. 😉

Great stories Tim!

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marijuana laws are ignorant and archaic and need to be changed ASAP! a very good book!

marijuana laws

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This is crazy sounds like a lot of fun. Well the first part anyway thanks for sharing some of your stories I heard about this book on the koncreat podcast

Loved this book

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So glad that The Connect w/ Johnny Mitchell podcast put me onto this book and Tim’s story!

Amazing book

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