Marching Powder

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  • Author: Rusty Young
  • Publisher: Pan Books
  • Catalogue: 124315
  • Size: 20cm x 13cm
Marching Powder by Rusty Young is a real-life story of a British drug smuggler who ended up in Bolivia’s most notorious jail; a shocking yet darkly comic account of an almost other world. Life in Bolivia's infamous San Pedro prison, centre of a thriving cocaine industry where everything has a price, is both brutal and bizarre.

When Thomas McFadden was arrested trying to smuggle five kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, being flung into the under world of the San Pedro prison was to be expected - what he was astonished to discover was that corrupt politicians and major-league drug smugglers lived in a lap of luxury in one wing of the prison, while poorer inhabitants lived in sections too dangerous to enter alone or after dark. Poorer prisoners had to pay for everything - their cells, their food, their clothing, not to mention the frequent bribes required by the police. To survive in San Pedro you needed and income - and so prisoners in jail for drugs smuggling turned to the trade they knew best, manufacturing cocaine…

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