Marching Powder

 Note: This is a used book that is in mostly pretty good condition.  It's been read but the spine is intact and the pages are clear. It's also quite an interesting book so if you if are into prison books, you will dig this book.

Description:

The true story of an English drug-smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison, and enough cocaine to cover the Andes...

"A unique window on a bizarre and corrupt world" - Publishers Weekly "Travel literature of a very special and captivating kind" - Booklist

Rusty Young, a young Australian law graduate, was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, an English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's infamous San Pedro prison. When Rusty met Thomas, they quickly formed an unexpected friendship and partnered up to document Thomas's extraordinary experiences in the jail. The result is one of the most compelling prison stories ever told.

Marching Powder is a shocking, sometimes darkly comic account of life in San Pedro. In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to purchase their cells from real estate agents. Some run shops and restaurants, and women and children live alongside imprisoned family members. Violence and crime are ever-present, and the prison houses some of Bolivia's busiest cocaine laboratories. In San Pedro, cocaine is a coping mechanism—even the prison cat is addicted to crack.

Amid the corruption, brutality, and daily struggle for survival, Marching Powder is also the tale of an unlikely friendship between a drug smuggler and a lawyer, forged in the most unusual circumstances. It is the story of one of the strangest places on earth, where horror is tempered by humor and cruelty coexists with compassion.