Tom Feiling is a writer and journalist. His celebrated books include The Candy Machine- How Cocaine Took Over the World, Short Walks from Bogota- Journeys in the New Colombia and The Island that Disappeared- Old Providence and the Making of the Western World.
A beautiful, measured meditation … This, Feiling points out, is our future too … All the more reason or us to take a close interest in what works – and doesn’t in Japan -- Christopher Harding * Spectator * - - Praise for Tom Feiling * - * 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 * Evening Standard *