The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World
基本信息·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd ·页码：368 页 ·出版日期：2009年08月 ·ISBN：0141034467 ·International Standard Book Number：0141034467 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2009年08月
·ISBN：0141034467
·International Standard Book Number：0141034467
·条形码：9780141034461
·EAN：9780141034461
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In "The Candy Machine", Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medillin 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 such as 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.
作者简介 Tom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. This is his first book.
媒体推荐 The Candy Machine is highly addictive Metro An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine FT It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book The Sunday Telegraph 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 Evening Standard
