Narco Polo
Iain Sinclair, 23 January 1997
Mr Nice: An Autobiography
by Howard Marks.
Secker, 466 pp., £16.99, September 1996,0 436 20305 7 Show More
by Howard Marks.
Secker, 466 pp., £16.99, September 1996,
Pulp Election: The Booker Prize Fix
by Carmen St Keeldare.
Bluedove, 225 pp., £12.99, September 1996,0 9528298 0 0 Show More
by Carmen St Keeldare.
Bluedove, 225 pp., £12.99, September 1996,
“... tannin glaze of a resting Stone: Ronnie Wood morphing into Bill Wyman. A heavy silver wedding ring. The ever-present mobile phone. I’d given Mr Nice a first reading. And that’s how Marks presented himself. How he charmed the uncharmable, the warders at Terre Haute Penitentiary: his ‘usual trick of being excessively friendly and polite’. He ... ”