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the candy machine: how cocaine took over the world
[Paperback - 2010]
tom feiling
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780141034461 | Pages: 368
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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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