{"product_id":"the-candy-machine-9780141034461","title":"The Candy Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tom Feiling\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling's The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke - and also works for a major police force. Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogot  who gets his stash from a sweathouse. Belica started picking coca when she was eleven. Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thinks legalization's the only way ...\u003c\/p\u003e Cocaine is big business. 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 Medell n hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs. 'An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine'\u003cbr\u003e Financial Times 'The Candy Machine is highly addictive'\u003cbr\u003e Metro 'It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. A vivid, argumentative, arresting book' \u003cbr\u003e Sunday Telegraph 'I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them' \u003cbr\u003e Evening Standard 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. His book Short Walks from Bogot  Journeys in the new Colombia is published by Allen Lane.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086868701335,"sku":"9780141034461","price":770.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780141034461.webp?v=1767639634","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-candy-machine-9780141034461","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}