Tom Feiling

Broschiertes Buch

The Candy Machine

How Cocaine Took Over the World

Beschreibung

How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? The author travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellin hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs.

Autor

Tom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. This is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780141034461
• ISBN-10: 0141034467
• Artikelnr.: 26054495

Rezensionen

The Candy Machine is highly addictive Metro