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Candy Machine How Cocaine Took Over the World

Name: Candy Machine
Author: Tom Feiling

Auteur: Tom Feiling

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: Tom Feiling

Engels
Paperback
9780141034461
06 augustus 2009
368 pagina's

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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.

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 the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes?

In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs.

'An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine'
Financial Times

' 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. A vivid, argumentative, arresting book'
Sunday Telegraph

'I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them'
Evening Standard

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. His book Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the new Colombia is published by Allen Lane.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 augustus 2009
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Tom Feiling
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 20 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 272 g

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EAN: 9780141034461

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