Kilo by Toby Muse
On the ground in the drug war for over a decade, earning the trust of those involved on all sides, Toby Muse takes us with him through the endless blood-soaked horror and economic logic at every level of the journey of the worlds most alluring and dangerous drug.
Kilo is one of the best books I've read on the cocaine trade.. Forget all the TV stuff, this is the real deal * Max Daly, Vice *
Poetic but also brilliant journalism. I loved it. One of the best books on drugs ever written * Mark Townsend, Observer *
Absolutely hair-raising * Sam Leith *
Compelling and unforgettable. With Kilo, cocaine now has its own Dispatches. - The New Yorker * The New Yorker *
In Kilo, Toby Muse teleports the reader into the mad, bloody, tragic world of Colombian cocaine trafficking. You can feel the beats at the discos packed with drug lords and beauty queens; smell the sweat of laborers toiling in the coca fields for a pittance; hear the dog of the gun slinger barking in the barrio. In doing so, he pens a love letter to one of the most beautiful and bloodiest countries on earth * Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and Blood Gun Money *
Poetic but also brilliant journalism. I loved it. One of the best books on drugs ever written * Mark Townsend, Observer *
Absolutely hair-raising * Sam Leith *
Compelling and unforgettable. With Kilo, cocaine now has its own Dispatches. - The New Yorker * The New Yorker *
In Kilo, Toby Muse teleports the reader into the mad, bloody, tragic world of Colombian cocaine trafficking. You can feel the beats at the discos packed with drug lords and beauty queens; smell the sweat of laborers toiling in the coca fields for a pittance; hear the dog of the gun slinger barking in the barrio. In doing so, he pens a love letter to one of the most beautiful and bloodiest countries on earth * Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and Blood Gun Money *
Toby Muse is a British-American writer, television reporter, documentary filmmaker and foreign correspondent. He has reported from the front lines of the conflicts in Colombia, Iraq and Syria. He has embedded with soldiers, rebels and drug cartels, producing exclusive reports from cocaine laboratories and guerrilla jungle camps. He lived in Bogota, Colombia for more than fifteen years, reporting across South America and the endless drug war.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529103410 |
| ISBN 10 | 152910341X |
| Title | Kilo |
| Author | Toby Muse |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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