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Hotel K - Bali''s most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali''s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it''s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.

Hotel K''s filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay''s brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists, who''ve seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill.

Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild ''sex nights'' organised by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay, the jail''s ecstasy factory, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system.

The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page.

It was meant to be a two-week holiday in paradise to celebrate her sister''s birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended in every traveller''s darkest nightmare. She stepped off the plane and into a world of hell after Bali customs officers discovered 4.2 kilos of marijuana in her bag. Her dazzling blue eyes and cries of innocence while facing a possible death sentence turned her into a celebrity overnight. The media couldn''t get enough. Months later, in a humid Bali courtroom brimming with media, her family watched in horror as the judge sentenced her to 20 years in the notorious Bali prison dubbed Hotel K.Inside, Schapelle suffered the unimaginable; living in a tiny rat-infested concrete cell, surrounded by daily suicides, murders, brutal bashings and overdoses. Outside her family fought tirelessly to prove her innocence. In this updated edition, Schapelle describes in intimate detail of how she descended into madness and ultimately found strength and her way home. Written with bestselling author Kathryn Bonella, this is an utterly compelling and unsettling tale that you won''t be able to put down.

Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali''s nightmarish narcotics underworld.Among the island''s drug dealers ''It''s snowing in Bali'' is code that the south-east Asian paradise is full of cocaine. For the men who run the country''s drug empires, it''s time to get rich and party hard. Snowing in Bali is the story of the drug trafficking and dealing scene that''s made Bali one of the world''s most important destinations in the global distribution of narcotics. Kathryn Bonella, bestselling author of Hotel K, has been given extraordinary access into the lives of some of the biggest players in Bali''s drug world. She charts their rise to incredible wealth and power, and their drug- fuelled lifestyles: filled with orgies, outrageous extravagance and surfing. From the highs of multi-million dollar deals to the desperate lows of death row in an Indonesian high security jail, Snowing in Bali is a unique, uncensored insight into a hidden world.

Sex. Drugs. Danger. Death.

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF BESTSELLERS HOTEL KEROBOKAN AND SNOWING IN BALI

This is the adrenaline-pumping story of the world''s most audacious drug runners and the police hunt, ''Operation Playboy'', to track them down.

These drug-running playboys travel the globe: they ski in Europe, surf in Bali, hook up with celebrity models and live in five-star hotels. They are 24/7 party boys with brass balls, steely nerves and reckless ambitions. They pay for their high-risk, hedonistic lifestyle by trafficking cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana on international flights and through the world''s biggest airports.

But to ride the wave you have to roll the dice. And in this game a bust means prison - or even a firing squad. A Brazilian cop is watching closely, determined to close the net. With a small team, he battles corrupt colleagues and bent judges to learn the secrets of the playboys and bring about their downfall.

Celebrated true-crime writer and journalist Kathryn Bonella has travelled the world to collect first-person testimony from an international network of mules and their bosses, as well as from the elite cops who are hot on their trail.

The result is a page-turning, white-knuckle thriller - the true story of a manhunt codenamed OPERATION PLAYBOY.