Book Club: Peter Hain’s ‘Smuggler Kingpin’ is fiction … or is it?
A real-world tobacco and gold smuggling shocker.
Quite a chunk is fact-based: there is a real-life “Smuggler Kingpin”- many, in fact- and tobacco smuggling is rife.
Much of what is in the thriller is real-life, alas, in South Africa too, with Dubai frequently a central port for the trade.
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