Author(s): Paul Keany & Jeff Farrell

True Crime

When Paul Keany proceeded through Caracas airport in Venezuela with six kilos of cocaine hidden in his suitcase, he was expecting an untroubled flight with a pay packet of 10,000 euros: enough to pay off a bank loan and a few small debts. But when airport police closed in on his haul, which had a street value of over half a million euros, Paul quickly realised he was in serious trouble. Sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas, he was plunged into a frightening world of drugs, violence and murder. Then, just over two years into his sentence - and four stones lighter than he had been when imprisoned, following a hunger strike and a life-threatening virus - Paul bribed his way to early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America...With the aid of extensive diaries he secretly kept whilst in prison, Paul Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where money talks, prostitutes do the rounds and corrupt guards smuggle in vast amounts of cocaine for wing bosses to sell on to inmates for huge profits.