Deborah Ellis

The Prison Runner

With his parents in prison Diego makes a little bit of money running errands and doing homework for other kids. Desperate to make all their lives better after making a mistake in the prison he decides to go on a mystery mission with his friend, a mission which he is told will make him lots of money very quickly. Instead he finds himself pulled into the cocaine industry, badly bullied by the drugs lords. Diego is a small boy with a big heart which makes his exploitation by the drugs industry all the more poignant. Timely, topical and absolutely engrossing this is a horrific portrait of reality for so many of Bolivia's poor.

OUP · 9780192755483