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

Macmillan, Sydney, 2009. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of colour and black-and-white photographs between pages 138 and 139. Photographic paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. When Englishman Thomas McFadden was convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine out of Bolivia, he found himself in the world's strangest prison – San Pedro. A prison where the prisoners have to pay for everything from their cell to their food, where prisoners have their families living with them and corruption and brutality are rife. This is Thomas McFadden's story, but it is also the story of the author, Rusty Young, a young Australian lawyer, who found himself in Bolivia taking a tour of San Pedro prison and meeting Thomas McFadden ... The inside of the front cover has the previous owner's name and phone number, and the first page is grubby. Otherwise a relatively clean second-hand book. Size: Trade Paperback. 371, [7] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Prison; Bolivia; Law & Criminal Studies. ISBN: 073291180X. ISBN/EAN: 9780732911805. Inventory No: 0268785. . 9780732911805