{"product_id":"loyal-soldiers-in-the-cocaine-kingdom-tales-of-drugs-mules-and-gunmen-9780231129145","title":"Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom: Tales of Drugs, Mules, and Gunmen","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alfredo Molano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLoyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on Alfred Molano's visits to Spanish and Latin American jails, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLoyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 narratives in this book resemble harrowing fictions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45268795261079,"sku":"9780231129145","price":7770.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780231129145.webp?v=1769236566","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/loyal-soldiers-in-the-cocaine-kingdom-tales-of-drugs-mules-and-gunmen-9780231129145","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}