HIGH TIMES, the extraordinary life of a Joburg dope smuggler

241pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Biography of South African-born Michael Medjuck, arrested in 1991 by US federal agents while smuggling a shipload of Afghani hash into the West Coast of Canada. Convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison, he was released nine years early after agreeing to give evidence against a corrupt prison guard. Barely a year later he was arrested in Spain for cocaine-smuggling and sentenced to another prison term of nine years.