Dan Davis (writer)

Dan Davis was born in South Dakota. He was on the wrestling team in high school and became a professional horse jockey afterwards. where he supplied legal ephedrine pills to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. He spent five years in prison during the 1980s for tax fraud. ==Fugitive years==

In 1998 Davis was indicted on state and federal charges, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines and marijuana, with additional narcotics charges from 1994—which Davis claims were the result of a friend of his framing him with of meth. Davis and his Venezuelan lawyers have stated that they believe the deportation was actually an example of kidnapping and illegal rendition. spending much of his time in Colombia under the protection of the Medellin Cartel. In 2008 he was sentenced to ten years in prison. ==Writing career==

In 2017 with author Peter Conti, Davis co-authored a book on his fugitive years entitled Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive. He has toured internationally in support of the book. Davis is also in talks to turn his book into a movie, based in part upon the 500 additional pages he wrote that did not appear in the final manuscript. In 2018, Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal award in the Non-Fiction Autobiography category On January 4, 2019, Davis sailed to the Antarctic Peninsula on board the Polar Latitudes operated expedition vessel MS Island Sky and completed a seven-continent book tour in Port Lockroy, Antarctica. ==See also==