Not many people go from being raised as an orthodox Jew to becoming an international drug smuggler. Hank Cooper, a Canadian who grew up in Toronto, traveled that path.
After becoming an adult — chronologically, at least — in the nineteen seventies and eighties, Hank lived anything but what his parents would have called a normal life during his twenties and early thirties.
Maybe it had something to do with his orthodox Jewish upbringing, but then again it probably was a combination of a million other things — especially luck, which he discusses in his memoir, Smuggling with Jesus.