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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

作者 Thomas McFadden ; Rusty Young
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail:RustyYoungwasbackpackinginSouthAmericawhenheheardaboutThomasMcFadden,a

內容簡介

內容簡介 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 journalisted 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Rusty Young currently lives in Colombia, where he teaches English. Thomas McFadden was released from San Pedro and now lives in England.

商品規格

書名 / Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
作者 / Thomas McFadden ; Rusty Young
簡介 / Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail:RustyYoungwasbackpackinginSouthAmericawhenheheardaboutThomasMcFadden,a
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780312330347
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9780312330347
誠品26碼 /
重量(g) / 358.3
裝訂 / P:平裝
頁數 / 371
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 20.6X16.7X2.6CM

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the "Lonely Planet" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth.

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the "Lonely Planet" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth.

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