Kilo

Kilo is surely the best account of the cocaine trade that will be ever be written, as well as the most incredible work of investigative journalist I've read

Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc

In fifteen years covering Colombia, this is the best book I've ever read about the cocaine trade

Matthew Bristow, former Colombia bureau chief, Bloomberg News

Kilo explores the trenches of the drug trade like few other books. With vivid writing and deep access to the underworld borne from his decades in the field, Muse has produced a must-read for those trying to understand why decades of bloodshed and billions of dollars haven’t won the war on drugs

Jim Wyss, Pulitzer Prize winner

Toby Muse goes beyond stereotypical crutches and achieves an honest and nuanced portrait of Colombia’s cancerous cocaine industry. Muse gradually reveals not just the stakes and the human toll behind every line of cocaine, but also the reasons why freeing Colombia from this deadly industry has proven so difficult. Kilo will prove enlightening even to those who lived first-hand the horrors of the country’s civil war

Juanita Ceballos, Vice News

Toby Muse’s tautly written account of his intimate prowl through Colombia’s narco world is both compelling and unforgettable. With Kilo, cocaine now has its own Dispatches

Jon Lee Anderson

Like other daring foreign correspondents, Sebastian Junger and Chris Hedges among them, Muse has a talent for recognizing the intrinsic humanity in all his subjects, no matter how monstrously they may behave. An unrelentingly tragic yet indispensable exposé of the never-ending war on drugs.

Kirkus

A staggering work of reportage and social analysis.

Crimereads

Muse’s beautifully written debut takes a deep dive into the Colombian drug trade… This gripping account will linger in the mind of readers.

Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review)

A new book by a veteran reporter provides a comprehensive picture of Colombia’s modern-day cocaine trafficking networks and their devastating impact on the society that surrounds them… Muse has a talent for finding compelling material and in unexpected places.

InSight Crime

Kilo is one of the best books I've read on the cocaine trade... Forget all the TV stuff, this is the real deal

Max Daly, Vice

Poetic but also brilliant journalism. I loved it. One of the best books on drugs ever written

Mark Townsend, Observer

Absolutely hair-raising

Sam Leith

In Kilo, Toby Muse teleports the reader into the mad, bloody, tragic world of Colombian cocaine trafficking. You can feel the beats at the discos packed with drug lords and beauty queens; smell the sweat of laborers toiling in the coca fields for a pittance; hear the dog of the gun slinger barking in the barrio. In doing so, he pens a love letter to one of the most beautiful and bloodiest countries on earth

Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and Blood Gun Money

Compelling and unforgettable. With Kilo, cocaine now has its own Dispatches. - The New Yorker

The New Yorker