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  • Backfire

    The Long Way Home

    by David Kunkel ...
    Backfire is the gripping true story of two young Americans whose hunger for adventure, ambition, and easy money led them far beyond the safety of their suburban California upbringing—and straight into one of the most notorious prisons in Europe. In the late 1960s, Tom and the narrator were bright, restless, and convinced they were too clever for ordinary lives. Dropping out of college, they mapped ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Locked Up Abroad

    An Alaskan's True Story of Adventure, Incarceration, and Escape.

    by David Kunkel ...
    Locked Up Abroad is a true story of a young drug dealer and his friend turned smugglers. His shoe-string caper covered 6,000 miles from Europe to Afghanistan to Greece. The high of quick money morphed into capture. A Corrupt judicial system introduced them to a hellish 200-year-old island prison fortress. The only way out of the this devil's den was escape. Locked Up Abroad is a convincing ... Read more

    $10.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    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 Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, ... Read more

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  • Welcome to Hell

    One Man's Fight for Life inside the Bangkok Hilton

    by Colin Martin ...
    Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Hell in Barbados

    The true story of a man imprisoned in paradise

    Hell in Barbados is the powerful true story of a drug-addicted smuggler who found his salvation in the unlikeliest of places. Told with disarming honesty, the book propels the reader into the mind of an addict and shows us the depths of degradation one man sunk to before finding the inner strength to save himself.Terry Donaldson met with success early in life but his struggle with addiction soon ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Lockdown

    Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison

    The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed. Closed to the outside world, and even largely to the wardens, it was run almost entirely by the inmates themselves, who created a unique society complete with politics, hierarchies and a system ... Read more

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  • Journey To Hell

    Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System

    Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed: he had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the UK. And to the gangsters who hired him, refusal was not an option.There followed a harrowing ... Read more

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  • Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

    Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home by any means possible, she agreed to smuggle an addict's personal supply of heroin. She didn't even make it onto the plane.In this remarkably candid memoir, Sandra Gregory tells the full story of the events leading up to her arrest, the ... Read more

    $9.39 CAD

  • In the Shadow of Papillon

    Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System

    Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught.The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the overcrowded Venezuelan prison system, notorious for corruption and abuse, and rife with weapons and gangs. At ... Read more

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  • Snowing in Bali

    The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World

    FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TRUE CRIME BESTSELLERS HOTEL KEROBOKAN AND OPERATION PLAYBOY: Kathryn Bonella.'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard.Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing ... Read more

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  • INSIDE (One Man's Experience of Prison) A True Story

    by John Hoskison ...
    This is a true story of a journey to hell and back. In 1994 John Hoskison was a highly respected and successful professional golfer. Then, one evening, after a tournament, he broke a rule of his life by drinking and driving and on the way home he hit and killed a cyclist. Hoskison knew he'd never escape the pain he'd caused and felt a prison sentence was justified. As a non-violent first offender, ... Read more

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  • Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail

    by James Phelps ...
    Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls.Opened in 1909 Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history.From ghosts to legendary prisoners, there has been an infamous collection of Long Bay 'guests', including the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD