Wade Agnew is a 57 year old Australian, an avid anarchist, occasional Rasta, and an atheist with Buddhist tendencies. For many years he happily consumed heroin, travelled extensively, and ferried illegal drugs around the world, including successfully heroin trafficking Down Under for twenty years. During these escapades he studied Architecture, Film Making, Politics and Law, promoting international music into New Zealand and Australia, personally handling all the arrangements. With all that terror now dissipated, and in a much more contemplative stage of life, Wade is ready for the next phase of his heroin affair, writing about the close association in his autobiography Cheating the Hangman. Now time has come to spill the beans on all the hair-raising adventures in this 20th century morality tale. Alas now separated she got everything, leaving him without a brass razoo, just these soaring memories of her warm, transforming embrace. In the planning for years, Wade is sure that just like heroin, the project will be imbued with “the rosy hue of unlimited success.”

Cheating the Hangman is the terrifyingly true account of the life of a heroin trafficker; both turbulent and exhilarating. Well written and outrageously funny, the story explodes across the globe, out of the perilous sources of Bangkok and Penang. The journey strips bare the ecstatic highs and subterranean lows of the lone wolf, providing a unique glimpse into this very anarchic existence. Fueled by heroin and adrenaline, motivated by mercenary zeal for cash and travel, the life is examined in forensic detail.
You will be there all the way clinging on for dear life, on this palpitating drive into the under-belly of capitalism; from scoring Golden Triangle sourced narcotics in Bangkok, through the knife-edge searches at the airports, to the drug-soaked streets of Australia.
Some negative heroin myths are debunked along the trail, and you will find out what happened to Barlow and Chambers, hanged later for drug trafficking, on that fateful day at Penang International Airport.

Wade remains convinced that all drugs should be legal, and that this contributed greatly to his sucessful trafficking career.

Fasten your seat-belts; it’s a hell of a ride.