The Set Up 1984

This story is based on real events that took place in 1984 when an inexperienced crew set off to bring a yacht full of cannabis resin from Lebanon to London. Operation Bishop was not simply drug trafficking, and the crew found themselves part of an international drama linked to the foreign policies of the British and U.S. governments, trapped at the nexus of the Cold War and the war against terrorism. This celebrated case was silenced by the British government, the records not to be...
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This story is based on real events that took place in 1984 when an inexperienced crew set off to bring a yacht full of cannabis resin from Lebanon to London. Operation Bishop was not simply drug trafficking, and the crew found themselves part of an international drama linked to the foreign policies of the British and U.S. governments, trapped at the nexus of the Cold War and the war against terrorism. This celebrated case was silenced by the British government, the records not to be publicly available for 80 years--until 2064. This novel imagines the crew, their journey, their prison time and trial, and why the British government took such an unusual step to hide details of Operation Bishop.