
I Am The Market by Luca Rastello
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.
LUCA RASTELLO is a journalist at the Italian newspaper 'La Repubblica' and director of osservatoriobalcani.org, a think-tank and website which specialises in the criminal economy and international relations. JONATHAN HUNT divides his time between Italy and the United Kingdom. His recent translations include Niccolò Ammaniti's I'm Not Scared, Steal You Away and The Crossroads, and Tommaso Pincio's Love-Shaped Story. Forthcoming in 2010 is his translation of Nicolai Lilin, Siberian Education.
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ISBN 13 | 9781847081544 |
ISBN 10 | 1847081541 |
Title | I Am The Market |
Author | Luca Rastello |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Granta Books |
Year published | 2010-08-05 |
Number of pages | 224 |
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