Mr Nice is an autobiography by Howard Marks about his life. I don't usually copy & paste from the book's description, but it's hard to explain his background:

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios, of offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford, but soon he was moving much larger quantities. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to 50 tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia.

Clearly, an interesting story. However, the writing was atrocious. It was choppy, with significant scene shifts mid-paragraph. It was also overly detailed. I had to carefully re-read parts at times because I missed what was happening. It is hard to know what is true and what is not...the crazier the stories, the more attractive this is to readers. Eventually, his story was turned into a movie.

First time in a long time that I did not finish reading a book. It was too slow and painful. I probably made it 80% of the way, but frankly I lost interest.

My rating for Mr Nice: 1 star out of 5. Get it here!