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''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 de

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Banged Up Abroad Hellhole

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    A Paperback by James Miles, Paul Loseby

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Ebury Press
      Published 2/16/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780091946791
      978-0091946791
      ISBN-10 0091946794
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      Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Memoirs Penology and punishment

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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 de

      Trade Review
      Gripping and shocking read. * The Sun *

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