Rusty Young
Crime
Fiction
Travel
Rusty Young is an Australian author born in 1975.
He wrote the bestseller Marching Powder after meeting Thomas McFadden while backpacking in Bolivia.
Young spent three months living in San Pedro prison to document McFadden's story.
He later worked on an anti-kidnapping program in Colombia, interviewing former child soldiers and gaining insights into cocaine trafficking.
This experience inspired his novel Colombiano.
Young co-founded a charity for rehabilitating child soldiers and donates 10% of Colombiano's royalties to it.
He also fronted a documentary interviewing notorious figures from the cocaine trade.
