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Marching Powder by Rusty Young (Paperback, 2016)
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Title: Marching Powder. Author: Rusty Young. When Thomas McFadden was arrested trying to smuggle five kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, he was flung into San Pedro prison - the strangest penitentiary system in the world.
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San Pedro is Bolivia's most torious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas 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. Written by lawyer Rusty Young, Marching Powder - sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, is a riveting story of survival.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-101509829407
ISBN-139781509829408
eBay Product ID (ePID)222268767
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Place of PublicationLondon
Author BiographyRusty 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. Thomas McFadden is now a free man, living in London.
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Author(s)Rusty Young
Date of Publication30/06/2016
Format DetailsB-Format Paperback
SubjectBiography: Historical, Political & Military
Edition StatementNew Edition
ImprintPan Books
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
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