Author:Dominic Streatfeild
Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. All because of a small, unremarkable-looking shrub.
Dominic Streatfeild's highly-praised and comprehensive study examines the history of the world's most popular, most problematic drug, from its origins with the Incas, to early enthusiasts including Freud, and the multi-million pound industry it is today. His journey takes him from the darkest corners of the British Library to the isolation cells of America's most secure prisons, from the crack houses of New York to the deepest jungles of South America, as he meets the economists, scientists, law enforcers, historians and traffickers who are involved in policing - and running - the cocaine trade.
The best volume on charlie for years...addictive
—— ObserverThe most comprehensive and intelligent history of cocaine available today
—— The TimesStick your hooter into this volume and you won't be able to stop until you've sniffed out all of its contents
—— Time Out'Don't die stupid. If you haven't read Mason's book, you know nothing about how this planet works... breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive... Damn, I wish I'd written this book
—— Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller Armed MadhouseThis is micro-historical writing at its best
—— Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of DominationMason brings together a wealth of inspiring stories of workers' struggles of the past with accounts of workers' fights today
—— Socialist ReviewIt has taken a mere 2,700 years for archaeology to reveal Homer as a truly talented historian, not just a peddler of second hand myths. Contrary to age-old academic prejudice, finds since 1988 have confirmed that the Trojan War happened much as Homer - the Iron Age writer with an inspired grasp of Bronze Age culture - related it. Homer's heroes remain mythical, but so much else is spot-on that Barry Strauss extends the benefit of the doubt by re-telling The Iliad in his own chattily lyrical style as if Achilles & Co were as real as the other proven evidence. Cracking book ...
—— The Daily TelegraphIn this gripping reconstruction [Strauss] deploys an impressive array of archaeological, historical and linguistic evidence...
—— Mail on SundayA gripping account
—— Adam Forrest , The HeraldDeGroot tells the story of the American lunar mission with verve and elegance
—— Richard Aldous , Irish TimesFascinating, gossipy and occasionally hilarious
—— Jeffrey Taylor , Express
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