On 10 February 2014, 30-year-old South African Taran Eagar flew into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi with 100 capsules of cocaine inside her body.
She had been red-flagged by Interpol. Seventeen narcotics officers were waiting for her on the runway. Her extraordinary luck as an international drug trafficker was over. But Eagar was no ordinary drug mule.
She had previously been arrested in Pakistan, skipped bail, crossed continents carrying heroin and cocaine inside her body and eventually graduated from courier to running her own international drug-smuggling operation.
Before she was caught in Nairobi, she had completed 50 drug runs, travelling between South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil, the Caribbean and East Africa. At her "peak", she could swallow up to 160 cocaine pellets for a single trip.
She even carried drugs while heavily pregnant, escaping a life of hellish domestic abuse in Pakistan.
Brilliantly written by film maker and screenwriter, Meg Rickards, FROM DRUG MULE TO DRUG BOSS is an explosive memoir about staggering risk and addiction to adrenaline and money. It is also about violence, betrayal and fear.
'From Drug Mule to Drug Boss: The Taran Eagar Story ' is published by Melinda Ferguson Books/Ride or Die Press
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