Marching Powder by Rusty Young

Marching Powder

A true story of friendship, cocaine, and South America’s strangest jail

by Rusty Young

Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 073291180X,  colour photographic plates, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (See photographs)

“Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro prison.  Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas’s illegal tours.  What followed took both men by surprise: they formed a strong and instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas’s experiences in the jail.  Rusty bribed the guards to allow him to stay and for the next three months he lived inside the prison, sharing a cell with Thomas and recording one of the strangest and most compelling prison stories of all time.”