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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0330419587
Pub: Pan
Pub date: 2004-07-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1580
Reader Reviews:
Worth the read (0/0 people found this helpful)
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. (0/0 people found this helpful)
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.
Fantastic book, a must read! (1/1 people found this helpful)
A fascinating and extremely well written account of Thomas McFadden's incarceration in Bolivia's San Pedro prison. The stories of the inner workings of this prison are just incredible. It usually takes me weeks, or even months, to read a book (short attention span), but I became so engrossed in this book that I finished it in 3 just days.
Fantastic book! Highly recommended!
Brilliant (0/0 people found this helpful)
What a book,I seriously could not put this book down.I would like Rusty Young to write more book's regarding his life as a drug smuggler.This is by far the best book out there.
Unbelievable and shocking (1/2 people found this helpful)
The true story of a black English pro-drug smuggler and the nasty twist that led to him doing time in the San Pedro prison in La Paz -the strangest prison in the world.
The story is fascinating and the details of life inside the prison are absolutely unbelievable and shocking.
This book is hard to put down and once read you'll never forget it.
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