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In my earlier blog titled The Last Hunt I told of several incidents on the water that I found dangerous if not life threatening. The Last Hunt was a dangerous experience but the one below came much closer to drowning me before I even finished high school. I was an industrious young lad at the age of fourteen. I went to school but I also had a paper route that allowed me to...

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In Canada this title might have read “the last oppressed majority” since 53 per cent of Canadians are in favor of decriminalizing simple possession of cannabis. Prime Minister Jean Chretien while still in office a few years ago promised to completely remove criminal penalties against possession of personal amounts of marijuana and hashish.  “But don’t light up yet,...

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Operation Payback is an escapist adventure that takes place in Canada the USA and Jamaica. The story is told by an unknown voice who only reveals his true identity at the end of the book. The author, Jay Carter Brown, reveals the action while the voice adds comments and opinions in the form of postscripts at the end of each chapter. The effect provides a realism that blurs the line between fiction and reality and draws the reader into a story. Operation Payback offers several hours of ...
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My wife and I went back to Jamaica last week. We took a direct non stop flight from Vancouver that had us in Montego Bay only six hours after our seven AM departure. The photo at the head of this story is the scene behind my pot dealer’s shack proving that even the poor in Jamaica have beautiful views. The stop at the road side shack was the first one that we made after picking up o...

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I think I have spent enough time in Jamaica to qualify as a tour guide. I love the place and try to get there every other year or so. Because I know the island so well and because the island is so small I like to rent a car when I visit. A car affords me the freedom to go where I want,when I want and with who I want. Not long ago I traveled to Jamaica with two guy friends and it was fun to show them the sights. All the time we were sightseeing they both kept asking me to set up a helicopter r...
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Welcome to the Jay Carter Brown web site and his first ever blog. Your questions and comments are invited on any subject particularly those that connect to Smuggler’s Blues and the author’s soon to be published novel, Payback, Guns, Drugs and Poli-tricks and his work in progress A Wife’s Handbook on Growing Marijuana. To begin with this blog will answer a question posed by J. Greene in Amazon.UK’s comments section on its web site about Smuggler’s Blues.
J. Greene gave high praise to ...
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