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The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
Jeff Farrell
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Description for The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
Paperback. Aided by the author's extensive prison diaries, this book reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
`It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.' Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America ... Read more
`It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.' Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780576077
SKU
V9781780576077
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Ref
99-98
About Jeff Farrell
Paul Keany was a successful self-employed plumber until the Irish property crash in 2008. An aspiring novelist, he has turned his back on the murky world of drug-smuggling to focus on a life of writing. Born and raised in Oxford, he now lives in Dublin. Jeff Farrell is an independent Irish journalist and documentary ... Read more
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