Mark Coakley

Mark Coakley is a Canadian writer of nonfiction. Mark was a lawyer in Hamilton, Ontario from 1998 to 2008, before becoming a full-time author. His first published book, ''Tip and Trade: How Two Lawyers Made Millions from Insider Trading'', appeared in 2011. He has published true-crime pieces in Canada's ''Sharp (magazine)''. Coakley's next book, ''Hidden Harvest: The Rise and Fall of North America's Biggest Cannabis Grow-Op'', was published by ECW Press on May 1, 2014; it depicts the North American illegal drug economy and a giant indoor cannabis grow-op. Coakley has signed with ECW for a third book, tentatively titled ''Weed World'', about the global market in legal cannabis. Provided by Wikipedia