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 Brilliant!!! September 23, 2008
Ms. Josie Mellor
Great, well detailed description of the coruption within the prison system! Really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down! Opened my eyes to how how cocaine is made and exported out of the prison into the market-place! I could not believe how people could be treated in such a way.
marching powder September 8, 2008
P. Mertens (london)
the best book i have ever read, i could not put this book down, i got it to read on holiday and hardly spoke to the wife for 4 days, well worth the read, you just can't imagine the stuff that goes on in this prison.
 One of The Hardy Perennials July 28, 2008
JJ Louise (San Diego, CA USA)
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
M. Edney (Wales, UK)
6 out of 6 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
Ian Macmillan (Manchester Uk)
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
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