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The Candy Machine

How Cocaine Took Over The World
by Tom Feiling

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Narrator Adrian Mulraney

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Length 12 hours 20 minutes
Language English
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In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín hitmen, US kingpins, Brazilian traffickers and talks to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal ‘pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries like Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.

Cutting through the myths about the white market, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.

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Tom Feiling is a writer, journalist and documentary film-maker. In 2003 he became the Campaigns Director for the TUC’s Justice for Colombia campaign which organizes for human rights in Colombia. In 2009, Penguin Books published his first book, The Candy Machine: How Cocaine took over the world. It was published in the United States in 2010 as Cocaine Nation.

Adrian Mulraney is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Along with being a top voice artist, he has appeared in over 70 theatre shows in four Australian states and has appeared in Stingers, Neighbours, MDA and many other TV shows and feature films.

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Author:

Narrator:
Adrian Mulraney

ISBN:
9781743101612

Length:
12 hours 20 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Unabridged

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“It’s hard to decide if Tom Feilings future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux.” "I’ve read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine and this might be the best of them. It’s clear sharp and solid. Very well told." “A vivid, argumentative, arresting book based on extensive interviews with people involved in the cocaine routes which run from Colombia to American and British cities.” Expand reviews
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