# The Cocaine Diaries

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- Book: [The Cocaine Diaries](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-keany/the-cocaine-diaries) ([The Cocaine Diaries.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-keany/the-cocaine-diaries.md))
- Authors: [Paul Keany](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-keany), [Jeff Farrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeff-farrell)
- Publisher: mainstream_publishing
- ISBN: 978-17-8057-607-7
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2013-04-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . . Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last.