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  1. Marching Powder is a 2002 non-fiction book written by Australian author Rusty Young. It is based on the true story of a British-Tanzanian man, Thomas McFadden, who was apprehended in 1996 at La Paz airport in Bolivia with five kilos of cocaine in his suitcase and incarcerated in San Pedro prison. [1] The book, described as "a gripping expose of ...

  2. Jan 15, 2022 · Marching powder : a true story of friendship, cocaine and South America's strangest jail by ... Publication date 2003 Topics Young, Rusty, 1975- -- Imprisonment, ...

  3. Rusty Young (writer) Rusty Young (born 1975) is an Australian-born writer known for his book, Marching Powder published by Pan Macmillan Australia in 2003, and based on real life experiences in a Bolivian prison. Rusty Young is a commerce/law graduate from the University of New South Wales, who has lived most of his life in Sydney, Australia.

  4. Aug 1, 2016 · Rusty Young (born 1975) is the Australian-born author of the international bestseller Marching Powder, the true story of an English drug smuggler in Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro Prison and the bestselling novel, Colombiano, a fact-meets-fiction revenge thriller about a Colombian boy who sets out to avenge his father’s death.

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  5. Apr 15, 2021 · Rusty Young, Poco’s Co-Founder and Longtime Frontman, Dies at 75. Rusty Young, who co-founded the country-rock group Poco in 1968 and was the only mainstay through the band’s five-decade-plus ...

  6. Aug 19, 2011 · Rusty Young is an Australian lawyer who met Thomas McFadden on a tour of San Pedro. He was so impressed by him that he stayed there (voluntarily) for three months in order to write his story, Marching Powder. Thomas McFadden is now a free man, living in London.

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  8. Books. Marching Powder. Rusty Young. Pan Macmillan, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 384 pages. "When Thomas McFadden was arrested trying to smuggle five kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, he was flung into the infamous San Pedro prison. A bemused Englishman abroad, Thomas was astonished to discover that corrupt politicians adn major-league ...

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