iambic Books to Publish 'Smuggler,' Crime Memoir, 'OITNB' Backstory

HONOLULU, Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Available January 1, 2019, this "riveting" tale about a group of young American heroin smugglers recounts real-life events behind 'Orange Is The New Black' (as well as political rise and legal travails of Nigerian Senator Buruji Kashamu). 

When twenty-something post-grad Nicholas Fillmore discovers the zine he's been recruited to edit is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling operation and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride he doesn't know how to get off of.

After a bag goes missing in an airport transit lounge, the author is summoned to West Africa to take a voodoo oath with Nigerian mafia. Bound to drug boss Alhaji, he returns to Europe to put the job right, but in Chicago O'Hare customs agents "blitz" the plane and a courier is arrested. Thus begins a harried yearlong effort to elude the Feds, prison and a looming existential dead end….

About Nicholas Fillmore
Author Nicholas Fillmore attended the graduate writing program at University of New Hampshire, was a finalist for the Juniper Prize in poetry and co-founded and published SQUiD magazine in Provincetown, MA. Fillmore is currently at work on 'Sins of Our Fathers,' a family romance. He is a reporter for Courthouse News Service and lecturer in English at Hawaii Pacific University.

Fast-paced and literary, 'Smuggler' promises fans of Chandler and Camus alike a good time. Available to purchase at http://www.nicholasfillmore.com.

Advanced Review Copies available at NetGalley / Hard copy from Author

Author available for interview.

290 pp
iambic Books
memoir / true crime

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