The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over The World

Tom Feiling

Aug 2011 · Bolinda · Narrated by Adrian Mulraney

About this audiobook

In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín 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 like 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.

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About the author

Tom Feiling is a writer, journalist and documentary film-maker. In 2003 he became the Campaigns Director for the TUC’s Justice for Colombia campaign which organizes for human rights in Colombia. In 2009, Penguin Books published his first book, The Candy Machine: How Cocaine took over the world. It was published in the United States in 2010 as Cocaine Nation.

Adrian Mulraney is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Along with being a top voice artist, he has appeared in over 70 theatre shows in four Australian states and has appeared in Stingers, Neighbours, MDA and many other TV shows and feature films.