Written by lawyer Rusty Young, Marching Powder - sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, is a riveting story of survival. Marching Powder: A True Story of a British Drug Smuggler In a Bolivian Jail Rusty Young No preview available - 2011. Marching Powder by Rusty Young is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the. When he was told that for a bribe of $5000 his sentence could be overturned, it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money. Marching Powder Rusty Young No preview available - 2004. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee and buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside and die of exposure), prisoners' wives and children often live inside too, high quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison.Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison - he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit and was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the. All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards, an attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom. San Pedro is Bolivias most notorious prison. Written by lawyer Rusty Young, Marching Powder sometimes shocking, sometimes funny is a riveting story of survival. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Author(s): Rusty Young Biography Sale Books. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison.
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