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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

It is 1967 Bangkok, the Summer of Love, and for teenager Jon Cole, son of a US Green Beret colonel serving in the Vietnam War, life as a young Westerner in the City of Angels is sweeter than mangoes on sticky rice with coconut milk ... until he is introduced to the infamous House of Lek. Drawn to the underbelly of Bangkok, the International School Bangkok pupil soon discovers ganja, opium and the two-dollar bordellos. What follows is a surreal but true story of one Westerner's relationship with Thailand spanning four decades. A drug habit picked up at the House of Lek with schoolmates and GIs on R&R from Vietnam leads to a lucrative career as a drug smuggler, a nasty smack habit and, ultimately, a long stretch inside Bangkok's notorious prison, the "Bangkok Hilton". At the heart of Jon's account of his misspent youth in Thailand and his subsequent life inside Klong Prem prison is a Thai-Style acceptance of the consequences of his own karma and a desire to expose the fallacy that Westerners are mistreated in Thai prisons.Â Â

Country	USA
Author	Jon Cole
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9789814358330
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
Manufacturer	Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
NumberOfPages	242
PublicationDate	2012-01-16
Publisher	Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
ReleaseDate	2012-01-16
Studio	Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.

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

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