Jeff L Farrell

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezualan Prison Nightmare

An unforgettable cocktail of drugs, riots, rape, beatings, murders, and kidnappings—the unbelievable true story of years spent in a South American jailIt won't happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did—I got caught.Caught smuggling half a million euros' wor...

Acid, Cats, And A Friend In Texas

A brilliant first novel by Jeff Farrell, grandson of literary juggernaut James T. Farrell. In the spirit of Celine, with the prose of Tolstoy and the anguish of Solzhenitsyn, comes a contemporary tale like no other. Reality, really bites, so to speak. Meet the gentle, but developmentally disabled ma...

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teque...

My Olympic Story - Rome 1960

Jeff Farrell was the fastest swimmer in the world in 1960, a heavy favorite to win gold in the upcoming Olympic Games in Rome. Six days before the US Olympic Trials, the unthinkable happened. Jeff collapsed, was rushed to the hospital and underwent an emergency appendectomy. The surgeon said he woul...

By Jeff Farrell My Olympic Story - Rome 1960 (1st First Edition) [Paperback]