Narco Polo
Iain Sinclair
- Mr Nice: An Autobiography by Howard Marks
Secker, 466 pp, £16.99, September 1996, ISBN 0 436 20305 7 - Pulp Election: The Booker Prize Fix by Carmen St Keeldare
Bluedove, 225 pp, £12.99, September 1996, ISBN 0 9528298 0 0
‘Did you write it yourself?’ That is the first question any visiting journo asks Howard Marks about his autobiography, Mr Nice. Marks suppresses a yawn. The morning is not really his time. He’s in the middle of a promotional binge, late nights, dry-throat blather; the anecdotes on autopilot. By temperament he’s the contrary of the Tory apparatchik in the radio car. Instant confidentiality, a gentle workout for the laughter lines. He’s guilty. Of what? What have you got? Guilty with extenuating circumstances. ‘Truth without betrayal,’ Howard says, ‘has always been my code.’
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