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A true story of friendship, cocaine, and south americas strangest jail. This book, hotel kerobokan, is internationally titled hotel k. They were looking for cocaine, which is what most visitors smuggled out of san pedro, and were. Im not normally a nonfiction fan, but i have to admit this book was very interesting.
Drugs and the drug trade the ability to understand current drugrelated street terms is an invaluable tool for law enforcement, public health, and other criminal justice professionals who work with the public. Inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Rusty young born 1975 is an australianborn writer known for his book, marching powder published by pan macmillan. I know someone who visited the san pedro prison in bolivia and was disappointed to learn there were no tours of the prison. If you liked marching powder by rusty young, here are some books like this. Smalltime drug smuggler thomas mcfadden found himself on the inside. The writing style is, as you would expect, not a work of literary genius, but it is a page turner and the book also contains a few pictures to bring the prison to life. Marching powder movie trivia the part of thomas mcfadden was originally going to be played by don cheadle.
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