Books
FEATURED FIRST TWO BOOKS
SMOKE & MIRRORS
Smoke & Mirrors is the opening book in The Bolivia Files, a true-crime memoir set between
La Paz and Rio de Janeiro and Amsterdam.
Three friends are drawn into the hidden world of international cocaine smuggling, where
every success brings greater risk. What begins as survival becomes ambition as the textile
business, originally created as a cover, grows into a genuine enterprise, while police pressure
and personal loyalties tighten around them.
Then the unexpected changes everything. Simon is forced to choose between the life he has
built outside the law and the future waiting for him.
The Alchemist’s Hotel
Broke, in debt and running out of options, Simon travels alone to La Paz.
What begins as an attempt to rebuild his life becomes something far more dangerous.
Navigating a world of unreliable suppliers and shifting loyalties, he forms an unlikely
partnership with Sofia, a knitwear manufacturer from another world entirely.
From a quiet hotel room, Simon perfects a method that allows him to operate unnoticed
between the two.
Success draws him deeper. Every mistake carries a cost.
And once the game begins, it is very hard to stop.
Complete Series Of
THE BOLIVIAN FILES
TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE LAW
The Bolivian Files — A True Crime Memoir Series
No guns. No glamour. No bravado.
Just decisions, consequences… and the cost of an outlaw’s life.
COMING SOON
The Sun Gods
Simon, Steve and Frans are living two parallel lives.
Their smuggling operation is expanding across continents, while Cordillera Designs, the knitwear business created as a cover, is becoming a success in its own right.
As the rewards grow, so do the pressures. Simon finds himself torn between ambition, loyalty and the life he still hopes to build.
Are they flying too close to the sun?
Have their ambitions outgrown their abilities?
CRASHING COMETS
When their trusted supplier disappears, Simon, Steve and Frans are forced to bring their two worlds together.
The decision proves disastrous.
As the pressure mounts and events slip beyond their control, the lives they have built begin to fracture. Loyalties are tested, mistakes can no longer be undone, and survival becomes their only ambition.
Can they hold everything together?
When two worlds collide, does anyone survive?
JAIL TALES
A collection of true stories from Simon McCoy's time inside, and escaping from jails on three continents.
Meet the kidnapper who escaped prisons rather than he hire a lawyer, the charming bank robber revolutionary, and the unforgettable characters who made the world's worst places strangely human.
Some stories will make you laugh.
Others will horrify you. Together they reveal why Simon came to believe that, given the circumstances, it is often harder to tell the good from the bad than we like to think.
