Book- Mr. Clean – Cash, Drugs and the CIA: The True Story of a Master Money Launderer

“A unique and perfect insight into the money-laundering world.”

— Howard Marks, aka Mr. Nice

International money launderer Bruce Aitken worked for the world’s shadiest characters...

From smuggling US dollars into Saigon during the Vietnam war to later missions around Asia with his customized golf bag, he reveled in his job... The novels of Len Deighton come to mind."

– South China Morning Post

“For much of the 1970s and 1980s, Bruce Aitken ferried cash

around Asia.

Some of his clients were marijuana smugglers.”

— The New York Times

“The mystery money mover.”

— The Sydney Morning Herald

What started innocently enough led Bruce Aitken to moving millions of dollars for some of the world’s most notorious and shady characters – including the CIA, government officials, financiers and well-known

drug lords.

It was a life of first-class flights and five-star hotels – a lavish, globe-trotting lifestyle, yes, but one always fraught with risk too.

And in the end, it all caught up with him.

Aitken was illegally kidnapped by American agents, and suddenly found himself staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars.

It’s ‘Catch Me if You Can’ meets ‘The Shawshank Redemption’

Howard Marks, aka ‘Mr. Nice’, writes in his foreword:

“I first met Bruce in the early 1980s ... and we immediately formed

a solid rapport.

He was a master of his chosen trade and helped me clean up some cash that I had earned through smuggling.

Reading about his two decades of laundering vividly brought back to me all the excitement, glamor and sheer fun that an international jet-setting life of crime invariably imparts [as well as] the paranoia and nerve-racking horror of his chosen lifestyle.”

330 pages.