00:00Can you explain who this Mario character is that you've mentioned?
00:04Well, without giving too much of the story away, Mario was an offshoot of the Corsican Mafia.
00:11Through an extraordinary fluke of fate that resulted from the exploits of my Uncle Alois,
00:17I came to work for Mario as his personal gopher.
00:22Mario had overtaken his father's heroin pipeline in Southeast Asia just after the Indochina War.
00:28His father had gotten implicated in a heroin ring in France,
00:33and because he and his wife had elitist and high-level mob connections,
00:38he was brandished to Southeast Asia rather than being jailed.
00:42And he was given a job working for the SDECE, which is the French equivalent to the CIA.
00:49After that, Mario smuggled a good percentage of the world's heroin, tie sticks,
00:54and bails to tie gold into America during the 60s and 70s.
00:58Having various clandestine homes throughout the world,
01:02rumor had it that Mario made close to a billion dollars smuggling.
01:06Because of my uncle, Mario had handed me the keys to the material world
01:10and made an extremely naive young man feel like he belonged in his underworld.
01:16I was in my mid-twenties at the time, and I willfully flicked on the felonious switch.
01:22I had been born to death and only wanted to escape the sour halitosis of middle-class decay
01:29and the dead-end ramblings of my philosophy professors at the University of Wisconsin.
01:36Little did I know at the time the world I had entered, and that I would never be the same.
01:41600 Devils by Marion can be found on Amazon Books in paperback, e-book, or audiobook.
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