COCAINE TRAIN Stephen Smith - Tracing My Bloodline Through Columbia

In the summer of 1998, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. The Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman.

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with light reading wear and general age; light corner wear; pages tanning with age; nice strong binding.

Publisher's blurb: One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly “massacre”, drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous traveller. So it is much against his better judgement that, in the summer of 1998, coinciding with a World Cup and a general election, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the “Cocaine Train” out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. Its passengers prey to thieves, extortionists and a dozen different varieties of paramilitary, the Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman, upright citizen and diplomat, with a Columbian mistress and an illegitimate son. The Columbia Stephen Smith uncovers on his extraordinary journey - surreally beautiful, unfathomably savage, seedily glamourous and mercilessly corroded by the trade in drugs- is as remote from his suburban British origins as it is possible to imagine.

Book Details

Code: SKU1660

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 236

Published: 2000 by Abacus, UK

ISBN: 0349111146

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