90 Degrees to Zamboanga, Rick Bibbero
90 Degrees to Zamboanga, Rick Bibbero
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90 Degrees to Zamboanga
Memoirs of a 20-year Marijuana Smuggling Adventure

Author: Rick Bibbero

Narrator: Rick Bibbero

Unabridged: 28 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2024


Synopsis

Sometimes comedic and sometimes deadly serious; the story is told by one of its major participants. Naive college students in the late 1960s, looking for excitement and adventure, smuggle kilos of marijuana on their backs over the Mexican border and into the United States. This memoir follows their lives, the cast of characters they meet along the way, and their smuggling adventures for the next two decades as their business ventures rise and fall and their escapades circle the globe, developing into a major criminal enterprise."November 1974: we were still ten days sail from our destination in Thailand where the four of us planned to load our 41-foot sailboat with a ton of the best marijuana on the face of the planet. This would be the largest single load of Thai sticks ever brought to the U.S. to date… if we made it home to California. However, we'd just survived a category four storm that had battered us and left all of our primary navigational equipment waterlogged and useless and us lost somewhere in the Sulu Sea. I figured that we may have been blown some 200 miles off course to the south and were now in some of the most notorious pirate infested waters in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Colleen on July 03, 2021

3.5 Stars. This was a Goodreads Give-away book. Thank you, Goodreads! This is a memoir of Rick Bibbero's experiences as a big-time marijuana smuggler and the aftermath of his illegal smuggling adventures. It's an interesting, detailed biography of the author's experiences with his associates, competi......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on March 15, 2018

In this astonishing true story of adventure and survival, Rick Bibbero details how he and his cohorts built an international cannabis cartel. The words bring to life Bibbero's story of exploration, adventure, and survival against all odds. I could not put the book down. Given the rising acceptance o......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 26, 2020

The story was quite detail oriented and interesting. The entire time I read this, I kept thinking this would make a great movie! And one I would love to watch. I could see it being directed by Guy Ritchie! There was a balance of humor and solemnity, a cast of crazy characters, and entertaining dialo......more

Goodreads review by Joseph Crosby on October 14, 2020

A drug smuggler’s tale. 90 Degrees is the history of one very successful smuggler of Marijuana during the boom years of smuggling. Being the same age as Rick, the stories protagonist I found his tale both interesting and enlightening. Written in a down to earth style I fully enjoyed this tale of adve......more

Goodreads review by Kim Kenny on July 05, 2020

Great story I spent liberty time in Patia beach in 1980, five minutes after getting in my hotel room a knock on the door and was asking if we wanted sticks ! He'll yeah best I ever smoked no comparison to what we bought on the east coast!I would love to meet you and tell some of my sea stories! But y......more