Marching Powder (Audiobook)

from starbox

True-life account of British drug smuggler, Thomas McFadden, who gets busted in Bolivia, and finds himself in the utterly weird San Pedro prison. A jail run largely by the prisoners, where you pay an entry and exit fee (poorer inmates find themselves stuck even after their release date) and where...

from Shirezu

I first heard about this book a couple years ago and was interested straight away. A book set in the San Pedro prison in Bolivia. Full of corruption, crime and drugs.What I got was full of corruption, crime and drugs. But also a fair bit of boredom and self-pity. No matter how nice he was he was ...

from allison.sivak

A surreal story about a British man who goes to prison in Bolivia for attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country. The prison is its own 'city,' in which prisoners have to buy their cells, where their wives and children may live with them, and where Rusty Young becomes a prison tour guide, hoo...

from mdinbc

This was a well written story documenting a british trug trafficers stay in La Paz prison in Bolivia. It was interesting to hear how the inmates and their families struggled to survive, and how the rampant corruption and bribery affected the lives of the inmates. I did find the protagonist to be ...

from gordsellar

While I did get to the end, I'd say that most people would be better off waiting for the movie... because the fictionalization in that format is likely to be more angaging than the fictionalizations (of which there seem obviously to be a few, even if they're just embellishments) were in the book....