In 2015, Jodi Cash, an Atlanta-based journalist writing for The Bitter Southerner magazine, met Steve Lamb, a 62-year-old man peddling his memoir at shops along the boardwalk of St. Pete Beach, Florida.
His memoir, which he had co-written with a professional author and published with a small-print press called Sirena, was titled “The Smuggler’s Ghost: When Marijuana Turned a Florida Teen Into a Millionaire Fugitive.”
