The Cocaine Diaries - A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

Informationen zum Autor Paul Keany with Jeff Farrell Klappentext 'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.' Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . . 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. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Farrell, Farrell Jeff, Paul Keany, Paul Farrell Keany, Keany Paul, KEANY PAUL FARRELL JEFF
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2013
• EAN: 9781780576077
• ISBN: 978-1-78057-607-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Venezuela, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Diaries, letters and journals, Crime and criminology, Penology and punishment, Prisons, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs