The Golden Gate Smuggling Company

In 1979 Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the Perlowin Conspiracy.</p> <i>The Golden Gate Smuggling Company</i> provides a true behind-the-scenes story of The Company the largest marijuana smuggling operation in the history of San Francisco. In the early 1980s commercial tuna fishermen used long-range tuna boats specially outfitted for the eight-thousand-mile round-trip between San Francisco and Colombia. Each boat carried at least 30 million dollars worth of marijuana to the Company's private pier in the San Francisco Bay area. Douglas a fisherman who lived through it all narrates this adventure from load number one to the federal courthouse in San Jose four years later.</p> Through the story of the Company Douglas chronicles a laid-back Californiastyle drug-smuggling empire that operated free of Hollywood clich��s: no guns no violence no dramatic shoot-outs or car chases.