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Marching Powder | 
 enlarge | Author: Rusty Young
Publisher: Pan
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 775
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0330419587
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780330419581
ASIN: 0330419587
Publication Date: July 2, 2004
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 One of The Hardy Perennials July 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book on holiday last year in the Caribbean where even there the mad sub-city of San Pedro jail surrounded by the shabby residences of La Paz seemed another planet. Re-reading this book now is just as fresh and recommended to even those with no taste for such things. Briefly, marching Powder is the story of a British drug trafficker who was arrested in Bolivia and jailed in San Pedro prison. During his six-year stretch, McFadden served as a tour guide in a prison that thrived under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.
This book belongs in the top ranks of prison books along with Papillon, A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook, Welcome to Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row, Escape, and In the Belly of the Beast.
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook
Welcome to Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
Another World July 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Many people have said good things about this book and they're mostly true. Marching Powder takes the reader into another world. Surreal and dystopian, this is travel as you don't want it! If you've missed it so far, read it when you can.
For another view across the world, try Escape by David McMillan. There, we have the true life story of just about the only Westerner to break out of one of the infamous hell-hole prisons.
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
One damn good read July 10, 2008
I heard of this after ready another book, "The Damage Done", which i could not put down.
This one is not as harsh or as violence, but a very good story and best thing is its true
When i get to Bolivia need to go and see !!!!
READ IF YOU HAVE NOT ALLREADY
 Worth the read April 27, 2008
Just to provide a bit of balance to some of the reviews below... this is no Papillion. It's not particularly well written and is often disjointed while you get the feeling that the account is rather selective. Some stories could do with elaboration while others could have been ommitted. This not with standing, it is an interesting story and gives some fascinating insight into the crazy world of a Bolivian prison.
 Intoxicating read. March 15, 2008
An insight into one of the most fascinating though thoroughly grim prisons in the world. Its hard to take in what you're reading, knowing it actually happens in a prison. I have moral issues with Thomas, though as a survivor nobody can fault his sheer stamina and drive to better himself in the face of well, some hell of an adversity within prison life. This book offers a truly insightful view of a world a million miles away, totally beyond our own comprehension.
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