Marching Powder (book)

Marching Powder is a 2002 non-fiction book written by Australian author Rusty Young. It is based on the true story of a British-Tanzanian man, Thomas McFadden, who was apprehended in 1996 at La Paz airport in Bolivia with five kilos of cocaine in his suitcase and incarcerated in San Pedro prison. The book, described as "a gripping expose of life inside" and "the current must-read on the gringo trail", was released in 2003 and became a bestseller and a cult classic, having sold over 600,000 copies.