Critical Praise

"Now-reformed smuggler O'Dea pulls back the curtain on the machinations and motivations of a hugely successful, outrageously addicted 1980s drug trafficker whose redemption came too late to save him from prison... O'Dea maintains a sense of numbing repetition that resonates with the addiction narrative and keeps the drug cowboy tales grounded. Throughout his life's many ups and downs, however, O’Dea remains a charming, relatable narrator you can’t help but root for."

—Publishers Weekly

"High is crammed full of gritty adventure, exciting deal-making, human misery, humor, touching character studies, mysterious shenanigans, and lots and lots of heart."

—Kenneth J. Harvey, author of Inside

"High offers an intensive crash course in Dope Smuggling 101 intercut with a graduate seminar on doing time in the American gulag. O’Dea writes with telling authority and heartfelt sensitivity, to say nothing of self-effacing humor. Get High."

—Richard Stratton, author of Altered States of America

"Brian O’Dea has delivered a book that reads like a thriller, but is in fact and an honest, daring, inspiring life-changer, and deserves the widest possible readership."

—John Wareham, author of The President’s Therapist

"High is one hell of a wild ride on a full-throttle journey down the highway of life."

—Edward Winterhalder, author of Biker Chicks