I am the Market
How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton and Live Happily
Luca Rastello(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84708-190-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the cocaine trade. This is how it's done: with hard work and a good system. With coca made into cubes, dissolved in liquid, hidden in marble blocks or inside electric cable. With willing mules swallowing drugs in ovules (they'll be arrested - this is part of the system). With shipments measured in tons. With money in cash, always. And these are the risks: police dogs, scanners, customs, infiltrators - And if you do it right, it will make you rich. And if you don't, you'll spend your life in jail. Luca Rastello gets the story of the market straight from a convicted smuggler: the true, unbelievable story of an illegal trade that supports economies and destroys lives, and the war on drugs that makes it all possible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84708-190-2 (9781847081902)
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Persons
Luca Rastello is a journalist at the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and director of osservatoriobalcani.org, a think-tank and website which specialises in the criminal economy and international relations. Jonathan Hunt's recent translations include Niccolo Ammaniti's I'm Not Scared, Steal You Away, The Crossroads and Nicolai Lilin's Siberian Education.