Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole

Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole

Our Fight to Survive South America's Deadliest Jail

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Publisher Description

'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs. That's the only way I can describe Yare. It's a murderous viper's nest of assassins, cut throats and killers.'

When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby were caught smuggling ten kilos of cocaine out of Caracas, Venezuela, they couldn't deny their guilt. Young and naive, the lads had thought the one-off drug mule job would be a passport to a better life. But in reality it was a ticket to hell ...

They were sentenced to thirty years and flung into the world's deadliest prison system, ending up in the notorious Yare. A place where drugs and weaponry are currency and the rules are: there are no rules.

This is the gripping true-life story of how two men endured untold savagery in the most appalling conditions. It's about what it's like to witness murder and rape every day, fearing you'll be next. How it feels to join a dangerous Latino gang and eat dead rats in order to survive. And, what you do when you're at the centre of a riot between thousands of men with machine guns.

As seen on Channel 5's Banged Up Abroad, this is the most shocking prison story ever told and an inspiring account of human endurance.

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2011
9 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ebury Publishing
PROVIDER INFO
The Random House Group Limited
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Mad thing ,

Dashwood

One of the best book I've ever read and I've read a lot. It's gritty, painfully honest and totally compelling. Could not put this book down.

Trevor. P ,

Great read! Would recommend !

I really enjoyed reading this book, I felt the way the story was told was "real and honest " as you can get. I love a true story and I felt I was in the cell at times. I have read many books based on the drug smuggling subject such as " Hotel K" " too the bone" and others.. but your story was so raw it was unreal at times.

This story would and should make someone think twice in smuggling drugs - consequences far outway the little rewards!

Thank you James and Paul for sharing your experiences with the readers, I hope you both continue " Toda Polante" .

Trevor Prendergast
Twitter- @silverfoxIRE

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