Becoming Mr Nice The Howard Marks Archive

by Marks, Amber

• ISBN13: 9780857303936
• ISBN10: 0857303937
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-10-01
• Publisher: No Exit

Summary

The million-selling Mr Nice was one of the most successful non-fiction books of the last two decades. Now in Becoming Mr Nice, Howard Marks's daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and previously unseen personal archive. The book features, jottings, drawings and photographs from Howard's childhood and Teddy boy years in post-war Britain, treasured mementos and correspondence from the psychedelic scene at Oxford University, dodgy smuggling references on the backs of envelopes, a fascinating typescript account by Howard of his time on the run in the 1970s, hilarious transcripts from Howard's trial at the Old Bailey in 1981, records of the international surveillance operation mounted against Howard, heart-breaking first-hand accounts of his and Judy´s arrest in 1988, telephone transcripts of coded smuggling transactions, false identity documents, unpublished prison writings, the hitherto undisclosed defence Howard had prepared to run before pleading guilty and sentenced to twenty five years imprisonment, personal accounts of his time in prison and the freedom of information requests that helped him to secure release.

Author Biography

Amber Marks is a writer, researcher and barrister. She lectures on Law and Pharmacology, Criminal Law and Evidence at Queen Mary, University of London where she has authored several academic publications. Amber has performed stand-up comedy in a variety of venues and her book Headspace (a satirical account of her research into bio-surveillance) was described as 'astute', 'informal and engaging', 'wonderful' and 'funny' in the national press. Amber has written articles for the Guardian, Times, Wired and The Register.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. From the Valleys to the Dreaming Spires (1967-74)
2. Transatlantic Sounds (1967-74)
3. On the Run (1974-80)
4. Regina v Dennis Howard Marks (1981-82)
5. Operation Eclectic (1982-89)
6. Defence Theory (1990)
7. Terror Hut (1990-95)
8. Mr Nice (1995-2016)

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