Richard Stratton: 3 books
Kingpin
Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part...
Smuggler's Blues
A True Story of the Hippie Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This gripping and trippy true account of international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on marijuana is a “wild, entertaining ride” (Kirkus Reviews).
Richard Stratton was not what most people would think as a drug kingpin. He was a clean-cut young man from Wellesley who came...
In the World
From the Big House to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
The Hollywood ending of an adrenaline-filled and, by turns, harrowing and funny odyssey of crime and redemption in America's War on Drugs.
Smuggler's Blues, the first book in Richard Stratton's memoir of his criminal career, detailed his years as a kingpin in the Hippie Mafia. Kingpin, the second...