Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen

Name: Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen
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ISBN: 9780231129152

ISBN-10: 0231129157

ISBN-13: 9780231129152

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alfred Molano, James Graham, Alfred Molano, Jack Higgins

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Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdomopens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United States and Europe. Written by one of Colombia's leading writers, the book lets English-speaking readers get a good look -- for the first time -- at the people behind the drug trade. Colombians from many different backgrounds and parts of the country tell the story of how they got involved in smuggling and how some of them managed to get out alive. This book is about the predicament in which ordinary Colombians find themselves, forced to find a way out of poverty in the middle of an unending civil war. Based on Alfred Molano's visits to Spanish and…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

James Graham won the Catherine Johnson Award for the Best Play 2007 for Eden's Empire. Other plays include Albert's Boy (recipient of a Pearson Playwriting Bursary), Little Madam (Finborough), Tory Boyz (Soho Theatre), The Man (Finborough), The Whisky Taster (Bush), Sons of York (Finborough) suddenlossofdignity.com (Bush), This House (National Theatre) and Privacy (Donmar Warehouse). James Graham also writes for TV and film.



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From the Maelstrom, with Their Country on Their Backs




The Mule Driver



Scuzzball



Hanged Man



Eight Years, Three Months, One Day



Sharon's Diary



The Nun



Puppet


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