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The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World
Tom Feiling
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Description for The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Cocaine is big business. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in ... Read more
Cutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling's The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.
Gabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke - and also works for a major police force. Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse. Belica started picking coca when she was eleven. Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thinks legalization's the only way ...
Cocaine is big business. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141034461
SKU
9780141034461
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About Tom Feiling
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World
The Candy Machine is highly addictive
Metro
It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book
The Sunday Telegraph
I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It's ... Read more
Metro
It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book
The Sunday Telegraph
I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It's ... Read more