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Kathryn Bonella

    Kathryn Bonella ist eine australische Journalistin, die für ihre scharfsinnige Berichterstattung und fesselnden Bücher bekannt ist. Sie widmet sich häufig spannenden und kontroversen Erzählungen, die dunklere Facetten der menschlichen Natur und internationale Intrigen beleuchten. Ihr Schreibstil ist direkt und packend, und Leser schätzen ihre Fähigkeit, komplexe Ereignisse auf verständliche und faszinierende Weise darzustellen. Bonella entführt ihre Leser meisterhaft ins Zentrum des Geschehens und bietet Einblicke, die sonst verborgen bleiben könnten.

    Hotel Kerobokan
    Snowing in Bali. The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World
    My Story
    Operation Playboy
    • Operation Playboy

      • 400 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      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 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.

      Operation Playboy2019
      4,3
    • My Story

      • 432 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden

      Seven years after first publication of her number-one bestelling memoir, Schapelle Corby remains in jail, and her book remains her only direct communication with the Australian public. It was meant to be a two-week break to a tropical paradise. But for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. She was arrested at Denpasar airport after 4.2 kilograms of marijuana were found in her bag. Schapelle had become the real-life victim of every traveller's darkest fear - drugs had been placed in her bag after she checked it in. Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest stories of the decade in Australia, and she has rarely left the headlines in the years since. In her searing and compelling book we hear her tell of being wrenched from a carefree holiday into a stinking police cell, of an alien legal system where her attempts to prove herself innocent were thwarted at every turn, and of learning to survive in the squalor, discomfort and violence of a third-world jail. Schapelle's story is like no other - a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.

      My Story2009
      4,0
    • Hotel Kerobokan

      • 336 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, the ironic nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison, and home to a procession of the infamous and the tragic: the BALI BOMBERS, Gold Coast beautician SCHAPELLE CORBY and the BALI NINE, among many others.In Hotel Kerobokan's filthy and disease-ridden cells, a United Nations of prisoners live crushed together in misery. Petty thieves and small-time drug users 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 tablet.Hotel Kerobokan reveals the wild 'sex nights' organized by corrupt guards for prisoners who have the money to pay, the rampant drug use, the suicides and killings, and days out at the beach. It exposes the jail's role in supplying high-grade drugs to the outside, the gang that rules the jail through terror, the corruption that means anything is for sale, and the squalor and misery endured by prisoners.Written by Kathryn Bonella, the co-author of Schapelle Corby's bestselling autobiography, and backed up by hundreds of prisoner interviews, the truth about Hotel Kerobokan explodes off the page.

      Hotel Kerobokan2008
      3,9