Leslie 'Ike' Atkinson is one of the world's most original gangsters. According to law enforcement sources, he smuggled, by conservative estimates, more than 1,000 pounds of Herion anually from Bangkok to US military bases in the region during the Vietnam War. The Bangkok Connection chronicles the story of Atkinson - the former US army master sergeant, career smuggler, card shark and doting family man whose heroin smuggling activities were so prolific he was nicknamed Sergeant Smack.