- Published: 05/08/2010
- ISBN: 9781847081544
- 135x20mm
- 224 pages
I Am The Market
Luca Rastello
Translated by Jonathan Hunt
This is the cocaine trade.
This is how it’s done: with hard work and a good system. With coca made into cubes, dissolved in liquid, hidden in marble blocks or inside electric cable. With willing mules swallowing drugs in ovules (they’ll be arrested – this is part of the system). With shipments measured in tons. With money in cash, always. And these are the risks: police dogs, scanners, customs, infiltrators …
And if you do it right, it will make you rich. And if you don’t, you’ll spend your life in jail.
A bestseller in Italy, this is the first-hand guide to living well on the wrong side of the law. Luca Rastello gets the story of the market straight from a convicted smuggler: the true, unbelievable story of an illegal trade that supports economies and destroys lives, and of the war on drugs that makes it all possible.
£10.99
Conversational, confidential, convincing, upfront and down dirty
Iain Finlayson, The Times
Dark, interesting stuff ... a compelling attempt to tell an old story in a new way
Russ Thorne, Leeds Guide
A detailed account of the world-wide cocaine smuggling trade by an Italian journalist who's spent years researching the topic ... It paints a shocking picture of corruption, criminal activity and downright nastiness that will leave the reader wide-eyed at the scale of the industry and the lengths people will go to