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- catalog abstract "Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens 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 Latin American jails, Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom combines the gut-wrenching honesty of testimonial literature with the passionate storytelling we have come to expect from Latin America. In his native Colombia Molano has been compared to Gabriel García Marquez, and indeed the many layered narrative in this book resemble harrowing fictions.".
- catalog contributor b13170577.
- catalog contributor b13170578.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens 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 Latin American jails, Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom combines the gut-wrenching honesty of testimonial literature with the passionate storytelling we have come to expect from Latin America. In his native Colombia Molano has been compared to Gabriel García Marquez, and indeed the many layered narrative in this book resemble harrowing fictions.".
- catalog extent "ix, 158 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0231129149 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231129157 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Colombia.".
- catalog subject "363.45/09861 22".
- catalog subject "Cocaine industry Colombia.".
- catalog subject "Drug dealers Colombia.".
- catalog subject "Drug traffic Colombia.".
- catalog subject "HV5840.C7 M636 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Loyal soldiers in the cocaine kingdom : tales of drugs, mules, and gunmen / Alfredo Molano ; translated by James Graham.".
- catalog type "text".