I am the market
Subtitle: how to smuggle cocaine by the ton and live happily
By: Luca Rastello ; translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt
Contributors: Hunt, Jonathan, 1951-
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781847081544
Subjects: Cocaine industry; Drug traffic; Drug dealers
Work titles: Io sono il mercato
Description: This is the story of ordinary, respectable men, who behind the scenes have managed to rise to the peak of the international narcotics trade. It is not the story of those who swallow capsules or transport drugs in suitcases with false bottoms, but those who smuggle cocaine in cargo shipments, in containers, in vast quantities at a time. I Am the Market is told in the form of five frank lessons in mass smuggling by a convicted smuggler. On an ironic level these five lessons are presented as a complete course in how to become a consummate cocaine trafficker; on a more serious level they provide an account of the phenomenon and a deep analysis of developments in the cocaine economy over the last thirty years or so.
Notes: Translation of Io sono il mercato : come trasportare cocaina a tonnellate e vivere felici (Chiarelettere, 2009).

Translated from the Italian.