The Cocaine Diaries

Informationen zum Autor Paul Keany was a successful self-employed plumber until the Irish property crash in 2008. An aspiring novelist, he has turned his back on the murky world of drug-smuggling to focus on a life of writing. Born and raised in Oxford, he now lives in Dublin. Jeff Farrell is an independent Irish journalist and documentary maker specialising in Latin American affairs. His work has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph . He currently lives in Dublin. Klappentext Paul Keany's unforgettable memoir reveals how he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion, and forced hunger strikes when he was sentenced to 8 years in the notorious Los Teques prison in Venezuela. Zusammenfassung . Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits.

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A shocking exposé of drugs, riots, rape, kidnap and murder

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Paul Keany's unforgettable memoir reveals how he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion, and forced hunger strikes when he was sentenced to 8 years in the notorious Los Teques prison in Venezuela.

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. Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits.