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Recollections of a Racketeer describes the author’s idyllic childhood in the English countryside and his adult years as a chartered accountant and international racketeer. It has been described as “an irresistible read: authentic, evocative, intriguing, educational, moving, improbable, and very funny. It's also honest and self-aware.” The book describes how, by the light of the moon, the author smuggled pot over the deserts of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, the beaches of Pacific and Mediterranean islands and across the shores of remote Irish and Scottish lochs. His friends and colleagues included Wall Street Bankers, Californian gangsters, Afghan tribesmen, Mafia dons (and Oxford dons) as well as various Intelligence agents, IRA gunmen, hashish-eating goats, dissolute English Lords and French peasants. It describes the communist take-over of Afghanistan, an unsuccessful coup d’etat in Greece, the preservation of the monarchy in Nepal and the creation of an arms industry for Saddam Hussein. But despite the exotic backgrounds, the focus and emphasis of the book is always on the amusing and entertaining details of daily life. It is above all, very funny.
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