This book is so poorly written, it’s aggravating! Instead of choosing a linear story line, Ross tells you his history as if he’s reciting it from memory. “This happened, and this is what led up to it. Then this happened, and this is what led up to it.” No suspense, no character arcs, just poorly written.
Typical hoodlum victim mentality. Ross literally refers to himself as a Robinhood for the underprivileged as he’s polluting the community with attics. He has the “The CIA made it easy for me” mentality when Ross even admits himself that the CIA operative was only one of many suppliers and not even a primary one. I also love how the dirty cops are cool when they take his stash and let his courier go but are somehow worse than he when they plant drugs on him. They’re untrustworthy criminals just like you!
His story takes place in the 80s when minimum wage was $3 an hour. Yet he tells the story in today’s money! As if $100 was nothing in 1981. Him and his friends rented snowmobile one weekend for $40,000. What!? in 1985?! Time to turn your brain off.
To his credit, Ross does mention the controversy around the CIA connection story and how the author of the article took the criminals word as gospel and didn’t dig any deeper. After reading, I dove into this only to find that the connection was minor which only made Ross seem like he has a victim mentality.