Marching Powder
The true story of an English drug smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes . . .
(Sprache: Englisch)
A gripping, sometimes surreal account of surviving one of the world's craziest and most dangerous prisons.
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A gripping, sometimes surreal account of surviving one of the world's craziest and most dangerous prisons.
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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, anattempted 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
Autoren-Porträt von Rusty Young
Rusty Young wuchs in Sydney, Australien auf, wo er Finanzwissenschaft und Jura an der University of New South Wales studierte. Im Anschluss arbeitete er in verschiedenen Kanzleien und Handelsbanken, bevor er zu einer Backpacking-Tour aufbrach. Rusty Young ist Mitbegründer der Colombian Children's Foundation, die sich um ehemalige Kindersoldaten kümmert und Kinder von der Teilnahme am Kriegsdienst abbringt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rusty Young
- 2004, 384 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 13 x 2,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 0330419587
- ISBN-13: 9780330419581
Sprache:
Englisch
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