Bangkok Hard Time: The Surreal True Story of How a WesternTeenager Came of Age in 1960s Bangkok, Turned International Drug Smuggler and Walked the Prison Yards of Thailand’s Notorious Bangkok Hilton
Jon Cole
Jan 2012 · Monsoon Books
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It is 1967 Bangkok and teenager Jon Cole, son of a US Green Beret colonel serving in Vietnam, is coming of age in Thailand. Drawn to the underbelly of Bangkok by GIs on R&R from Vietnam, the army brat soon discovers ganja and opium, which leads to a career as an international drug smuggler and jail time inside Bangkok’s notorious prison, the “Bangkok Hilton”. A memoir of an American smuggler spanning four decades
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Shaun Carney
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October 13, 2021
GOOD READ IT'S FASCINATING HOW BRUTAL THESE HARSH PRISON ARE AND IT STILL GOES ON TODAY OUR ENGLISH PRISON'S ARE LIKE HOLIDAY CAMP'S TO BANGKOK PRISON'S I WOULD HATE TO BE BANGED UP ABROAD IN PRISON THERE FULL OF BAD DISEASES AND RAPIST'S SO DON'T DROP THE SOAP IN THE SHOWERS IF YOU GET LOCKED UP ABROAD
Lesty Loo
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January 24, 2015
Honest. Good read
David
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January 29, 2015
Great book couldn't put it down
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About the author
Born in 1950 in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the eldest son of a US Army officer, Jon Cole was raised on three continents from Europe to Asia and over half a dozen American US military posts in between. He is an award-winning jewelry designer now retired and living in the the foothills of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains.
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