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Rusty young, a twentysomething australian law graduate, was backpacking in south. A film adaptation of marching powder has been announced with little information released so. Thomas then moved to tanzania, and rusty went back to australia, where after the huge success of marching powder he had difficultsecondbook syndrome. The book is written by an australian backpacker who visits mcfadden in prison before striking up a friendship and deciding to detail mcfaddens life and experiences within the notoriously corrupt prison. Marching powder is a good book not a great book, but a good book but it just seems a little farfetched and, theres no denying, a bit repetitive.
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