It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book
The Sunday Telegraph
Feiling is a brilliant reporter, lucid, unflinching, morally engaged, and with an occasional deadpan sense of humour
Independent
The best British travel writers like Norman Lewis or Bruce Chatwin give the reader more than simple travellers' tales. Feiling is of their company ... a brilliant, penetrating and highly readable account
Robert Carver, Spectator
I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It's clear, sharp and solid. Very well told