{"product_id":"9781668230183","title":"A Very Particular Set of Skills: From Weed and Warlords to Creating the Karate Kid—a Screenwriter's Journey","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eKamen, Robert Mark\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe man who wrote \u003ci\u003eTaken\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Karate Kid\u003c\/i\u003e was also an international hash dealer—and that’s not even the craziest part of this story. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWild, funny, and almost impossible to believe, \u003ci\u003eA Very Particular Set of Skills\u003c\/i\u003e is a stranger-than-fiction true story about the thin line between adventure and disaster, reinvention and recklessness, and living to tell the tale.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48700885172479,"sku":"9781668230183","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781668230183_s600x595.jpg?v=1781631984","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781668230183","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}