Marching powder

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Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas's experiences in the jail. Rusty bribed the guards to allow him to stay and for the next three months he lived inside the prison, sharing a cell with Thomas and recording one of the strangest and most compelling prison stories of all time. The result is Marching Powder.

This book establishes that San Pedro is not your average prison. Inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Others run shops and restaurants. Women and children live with imprisoned family members. It is a place where corrupt politicians and drug lords live in luxury apartments, while the poorest prisoners are subjected to squalor and deprivation. Violence is a constant threat, and sections of San Pedro that echo with the sound of children by day house some of Bolivia's busiest cocaine laboratories by night. In San Pedro, cocaine--"Bolivian marching powder"--makes life bearable. Even the prison cat is addicted.

Yet Marching Powder is also the tale of friendship, a place where horror is countered by humor and cruelty and compassion can inhabit the same cell. This is cutting-edge travel-writing and a fascinating account of infiltration into the South American drug culture.

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Marching Powder

Rating: 4.8 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.04

A gripping sometimes surreal account of surviving one of the world s craziest and most dangerous prisons a darkly comic sometimes shocking account of life in the world s most bizarre prison when thomas mcfadden was arrested trying to smuggle five kilos of cocaine out of bolivia he was flung into Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Marching Powder

Rating: 4.8 / 5 | Prijs: € 8.99

A gripping sometimes surreal account of surviving one of the world s craziest and most dangerous prisons Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Marching Powder

Rating: 4.8 / 5 | Prijs: € 30.95

An intriguing portrait of the san pedro prison in la paz bolivia details the author s visit to the prison his growing friendship with inmate thomas mcfadden a british subject arrested for drug smuggling and the unique culture that exists within the prison original 30 000 first printing Uiterlijk 14 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 2004

Aantal pagina's: 400

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Rusty Young

Tweede Auteur: Thomas Mcfadden

Hoofduitgeverij: St. Martin'S Griffin

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Product breedte: 131 mm

Product hoogte: 24 mm

Product lengte: 195 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

EAN: 9781466817326

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