| Author/Contributor(s): | Kamen, Robert Mark |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Date: | 3/16/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Before Robert Mark Kamen became the screenwriter behind some of the most beloved movies of the last forty years, he was living a life that would have been rejected from any studio pitch meeting as too implausible.
A PhD student, martial artist, restless traveler, and world-class rationalizer of bad ideas, Kamen came of age in the anything-goes sixties, when a taste for adventure could become, with alarming speed, a career in contraband. What began with a little weed and LSD in New York turned into a globe-spanning, frequently absurd, often terrifying education in risk: Afghan hashish, false-bottom suitcases, Bombay gangsters, private jets packed with cash, federal prison, Thai drug lords, and one very well-behaved Old English sheepdog.
This is not the memoir of a criminal mastermind. It is the confession of a man who kept walking toward the flame because the flame made him feel alive—and who somehow survived long enough to turn that appetite for danger into a legendary Hollywood career.
Wild, funny, and almost impossible to believe, A Very Particular Set of Skills is a stranger-than-fiction true story about the thin line between adventure and disaster, reinvention and recklessness, and living to tell the tale.