Timothy "Saltwater Cowboy" McBride Author Presentation

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The author of “Saltwater Cowboy”.

In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was 21 and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers --middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. Tim's adventures were just beginning...

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