Contrabando

<p>Don Henry Ford Jr. is an unapologetic outlaw. For seven years he made his living smuggling marijuana across the U.S.-Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas. His business partners were some of the era's biggest <em>narcotraficantes</em> like Pablo Acosta and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After Ford was arrested and imprisoned he escaped and lived for a year in rural Mexico raising a bumper crop of weed and hiding out from the <em>federales</em> before his recapture and return to the penitentiary.</p><p><em>Contrabando</em> is the extraordinary unabashed memoir of a rebel -- a warrior on the other side of the War on Drugs who lived to tell the tale. But more than a riveting and remarkable true crime confession <em>Contrabando</em> is an ode to the beauty of the dry dusty West Texas plains and the lonely hills of Mexico -- and a tribute to Ford's friends protectors and fellow outlaws who stood by him during the dangerous smuggling years.</p>