News of a Kidnapping
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He...
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Con Game
The Truth About Canada's Prisons
Written by Michael Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $16.95
Michael Harris’s book about life inside prison is hard-hitting, hair-raising, and certain to be hugely controversial.
Con Game shows us that Canadian penitentiaries are effectively run by their inmates. Behind bars, gangs control the booming drug trade and mete out their own rough justice to inmates who break their rules. Guards...
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