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  • In the Shadow of Papillon

    Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System

    by Frank Kane, John Tilsley ...
    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

    $17.89 USD

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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

    $6.99 USD

  • Journey To Hell

    Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System

    by Donald MacNeil ...
    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

    $4.95 USD

  • The Bangkok Connection

    Trafficking heroin from Asia to the USA

    by Ron Chepesiuk ...
    Leslie “Ike” Atkinson is one of U.S. history’s most original gangsters. According to law enforcement sources, he and his gang smuggled, by conservative estimates, 1,000 pounds of heroin annually from Bangkok, Thailand, to U.S. military bases during their period of operation from 1968 to 1975.The Bangkok Connection: Trafficking Heroin from Asia to the USAchronicles the story of Atkinson, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Cocaine Diaries

    A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

    by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell ...
    '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

    $13.99 USD

  • Lockdown

    Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison

    by Drauzio Varella ...
    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

    $10.99 USD

  • Hell in Barbados

    The true story of a man imprisoned in paradise

    by Terry Donaldson ...
    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

    $6.99 USD

  • Wrong Place Wrong Time

    by David P Perlmutter ...
    Having lost everything after a reckless night out, I leave memories of a London police cell behind me and head for Spain with its promise of adventure and fun.Little do I know that I'm about to be thrust into the most terrifying time of my life.Wrong Place Wrong Time is a gripping true-life story of an unimaginable nightmare and how my ticket to a new life turns out to be a one way ticket to hell. ... Read more

    $4.74 USD

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

    by Sandra Gregory ...
    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

    $7.19 USD

  • Name and Number: Based On a True Prison Story

    by John Hoskison ...
    Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence. Nick hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true. Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor, Nick lives ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Cocaine, the Gulf Connection

    by K. S. McDonald ...
    Cocaine, the Gulf Connection is notabout cocaine gangs and shootouts in Mexican border towns,but rather it details the complex workingsof a sophisticated smuggling operation thathas gone unknown to the Mexican and U.S.governments for thirteen years. The success ofthe smuggling operation comes from a highdegree of compartmentalization, which allowsno chance for any one piece of the Companyto betr.. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD