Bad trips : how I went from Vice reporter to international drug smuggler
Record details
- ISBN: 1459749251 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781459749252 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
235 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Subject: | Pastuk, Slava Drug couriers -- Canada -- Biography Drug traffic -- Australia Drug traffic -- Canada |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | 364.1336 PAS (Text) | 35151001140367 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 364.133 PASTU (Text) | TRL33577 | Entertaining Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
"The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had - by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, Canadian music reporter Slava P., an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. into Australia. Five of them were already in jail. Immediately, Slava P. was internationally infamous. Was he a victim of pressure to commit extreme acts for the sake of a good story? A product of a drug-obsessed work environment? Or a manipulator, who pushed vulnerable young people into crime? Here, Slava P. tells his side of the story: what exactly happened and how the precarious, dog-eat-dog atmosphere of a media company can lead the young, the naïve, and the ambitious into taking crazy risks. Bad Trips is a story of drugs, hip-hop, influencers, and glamour, set against the backdrop of one of the world's most influential news and entertainment sites, VICE. Its cast of beautiful young people and semi-famous rappers passes from the seediest apartments to the most elegant of private clubs. Slava's chronicling of his years at this famous hotbed of excess is a piercing insight into contemporary media culture."-- Provided by publisher.