STONE FREE IS A TRUE-CRIME ODYSSEY—AN ELEGY FOR A VANISHED WORLD—UNTAMED, UNREPENTANT, UNFORGETTABLE.
From the cradle, Warren Anderson’s future had been set out for him. But his parent’s plans for an ordered life collided head-on with the awakening 1960s counterculture that rejected those ideals. Reforged as James “Abdul” Monroe, he emerged not as a compliant citizen but as an outlaw fugitive.
Stone Free unravels the true-life odyssey of a Californian misfit who walked away from the American Dream. What began as a search for meaning morphed into one of the boldest marijuana smuggling operations of the twentieth century. As Thai stick grew in legend, Abdul became a kingpin in the pan-Pacific dope trade, moving over 100 ton of prized bud to the Western world, while living large in idyllic tropical havens.
But living untethered had a price.
As Nixon’s War on Drugs turned up the heat, Abdul was betrayed by former friend, Mike Boyum, and convicted on major conspiracy to import marijuana into America. Unrepentant, Abdul—inmate 52260-098—was shackled and shuffled through 25 federal prisons, doing time alongside outlaw ghosts like surfing’s dark prince, Miki Dora, and the infamous Stopwatch Gang bank robber, Paddy Mitchell.
Link to the book trailer: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/book-trailers
Published by Cyclops Press in Australia.
STONE FREE IS A TRUE-CRIME ODYSSEY—AN ELEGY FOR A VANISHED WORLD—UNTAMED, UNREPENTANT, UNFORGETTABLE.
From the cradle, Warren Anderson’s future had been set out for him. But his parent’s plans for an ordered life collided head-on with the awakening 1960s counterculture that rejected those ideals. Reforged as James “Abdul” Monroe, he emerged not as a compliant citizen but as an outlaw fugitive.
Stone Free unravels the true-life odyssey of a Californian misfit who walked away from the American Dream. What began as a search for meaning morphed into one of the boldest marijuana smuggling operations of the twentieth century. As Thai stick grew in legend, Abdul became a kingpin in the pan-Pacific dope trade, moving over 100 ton of prized bud to the Western world, while living large in idyllic tropical havens.
But living untethered had a price.
As Nixon’s War on Drugs turned up the heat, Abdul was betrayed by former friend, Mike Boyum, and convicted on major conspiracy to import marijuana into America. Unrepentant, Abdul—inmate 52260-098—was shackled and shuffled through 25 federal prisons, doing time alongside outlaw ghosts like surfing’s dark prince, Miki Dora, and the infamous Stopwatch Gang bank robber, Paddy Mitchell.
Link to the book trailer: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/book-trailers
Published by Cyclops Press in Australia.
