Bio

Rusty Young is the international best selling author of MARCHING POWDER and COLOMBIANO. Voted by his colleagues at law school as “the most likely to end up in prison”, he spent 4 months living in Bolivia’s San Pedro Prison (voluntarily) to research his first book, MARCHING POWDER, written with Tanzanian-born UK inmate, Thomas McFadden.

Rusty then moved to Colombia for 7 years, working in counter-terrorism for the US government, driving a bulletproof car and assisting in anti-kidnapping efforts. His interviews with child soldiers from the FARC and Paramilitaries formed the basis of his next book, COLOMBIANO.

He recently interviewed various “legends” of the drug trade, including George Jung (played by Johnny Depp in “Blow”) and Pablo Escobar’s chief assassin, for the award-winning documentary WILDLANDS, directed by Colin Offhand and available for rent on Amazon and other major platforms.

Marching Powder is due to be made into a major Hollywood film.

Rusty currently works as an investigative consultant and as as a Certified Spanish-English Translator and Interpreter