During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines & owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuanna & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency he was busted & sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour charm & candour Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story.