The Cocaine Diaries by Paul Keany - ISBN: 9781780576077
Paperback
South American prison hell: drugs, violence, and a desperate escape.

The Cocaine Diaries

A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    3 June 2013

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Summary

A shocking expose of drugs, riots, rape, kidnap and murder.

‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.’

Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781780576077
ISBN-10:1780576072
Author:Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Mainstream Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:3 June 2013
Weight:243g
Dimensions:198mm x 127mm x 22mm
About The Author

Paul Keany

Paul Keany was a successful self-employed plumber until the Irish property crash in 2008. An aspiring novelist, he has turned his back on the murky world of drug-smuggling to focus on a life of writing. Born and raised in Oxford, he now lives in Dublin.

Jeff Farrell is an independent Irish journalist and documentary maker specialising in Latin American affairs. His work has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. He currently lives in Dublin.

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