Marching Powder: The true story of an English drug smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes . . . - Softcover

Young, Rusty

 
9780330419581: Marching Powder: The true story of an English drug smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes . . .
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330419587 ISBN 13: 9780330419581
Verlag: Pan, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

MARCHING POWDER is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee and buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside and die of exposure), prisoners' wives and children often live inside too, high quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison.

Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison - he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit and was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia. When he was told that for a bribe of $5000 his sentence could be overturned, it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, MARCHING POWDER is an always riveting story of survival.

'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards, an attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom . . . The result is a truly gripping piece of testimony' Sunday Telegraph

'This exotic, cautionary yarn opens the abyss beneath our wealthy world' Uncut

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Rusty Young is an Australian lawyer who met Thomas McFadden on a tour of San Pedro. He was so impressed by him that he stayed there (voluntarily) for three months in order to write his story, Marching Powder.

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Verlag
Pan
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330419587
ISBN 13 
9780330419581
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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