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Best-selling true crime books
by Kathryn Bonella
A graphic insight into the hidden world of Bali’s top western cocaine bosses.
With unprecedented access into their lives, author of best-selling true crime writer Kathryn Bonella charts their rise to incredible wealth and power and also follows many to the depths of hell when they are busted.
- Tracks Magazine
‘I was always a kind of pirate. If I have my clothes and money, I can go anywhere and adapt myself.'
- Jorge, Brazilian surfer and drug boss
OPERATION PLAYBOY
OPERATION PLAYBOY
These drug bosses ski in Europe, surf in Bali, hook up with celebrity models and live in five-star hotels. They're 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.
This true crime book tells the adrenaline-pumping story of the world’s most audacious drug runners and the police hunt, ‘Operation Playboy’, to track them down.
“. . . an insightful and sharply observed account of life inside Indonesia’s most notorious prison. Bonella casts a cool journalistic eye over some horrific events.”
Sun Herald
“Schapelle’s story is like no other — a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.”
Booktopia
About Kathryn
After graduating in Journalism from RMIT University in Melbourne, Kathryn covered stories across the globe for both television and print. She spent five years producing stories for tv program 60 Minutes, including Schapelle Corby’s bust in Bali; the Bali terrorist bombings; Princess Mary’s wedding in Copenhagen and the bitter feud between orthodontists and dentists over braces and ruining faces.
