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The One They Couldn’t Catch
by theonetheycouldntcatch
Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and deception; a story set in the lee of the Channel Islands, on a beach in Costa Rica, in a prison cell in San Salvador. There are Panamanian drug traffickers, bumbling DEA agents, gun-wielding Sandinistas, and an Egyptian girl with an ounce of pot in her panties. For thirty years, from the first Cessna load to the last wiretap, the government tried to bust him.Meet Bob Brewer, the one they couldn't catch...
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Episode 5: Marina del Rey
It’s 1968, and Bobby has gotten rid of most of his worldly possessions, even throwing out the trophies his father won as a celebrated yachtsman in the ‘30s. He’s sold what was left of his formula B racecar after the crash at Riverside…and, inspired by a free spirit he encountered as a boy in the harbor in San Pedro, has moved aboard his new sloop, Serenade. Finally under his own power, Bobby goes about fashioning the life he wants to live, and meeting some of the key people who will animate…and bedevil…that life for years to come…
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Episode 4: Cheechako
Bob goes off to college...but not for long. Instead, he takes his first real step as an adult and strikes out on his own when he and a couple of friends split for life in the wilds of Alaska. They don't make it. Back in southern California, Bob gets into auto racing.
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Episode 3: In the Navy
Bob enlisted in the Navy at 17 and set set off to see the world, or at least the parts visible from the deck of a destroyer.
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Episode 2: Playa del Rey
Bob's childhood in Playa del Rey, before the marina, where he learned to hunt and not be seen...and disregard consequences!
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Episode 1: The First Flight
Climb into a Cessna 210 with Bob and fly off into the Mexican night as he recounts his first flight to Mexico and just how he came to be a smuggler.
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Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and deception; a story set in the lee of the Channel Islands, on a beach in Costa Rica, in a prison cell in San Salvador. There are Panamanian drug traffickers, bumbling DEA agents, gun-wielding Sandinistas, and an Egyptian girl with an ounce of pot in her panties. For thirty years, from the first Cessna load to the last wiretap, the government tried to bust him.Meet Bob Brewer, the one they couldn't catch...
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Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and...
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