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Snowing in Bali
- The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard. It's snowing in Bali.
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. With its central location to the Asia Pacific market, its thriving tourist industry to act as cover for importation, and a culture of corruption that can easily help law enforcement turn a blind eye, Bali has long been a paradise for traffickers as well as for holiday-makers. Kathryn Bonella, best-selling author of Hotel Kerobokan, has been given extraordinary access into the lives of some of the biggest players in Bali's drug world, both past and present. She charts their rise to incredible wealth and power, and their drug-fuelled lifestyles, filled with orgies, outrageous extravagance and surfing. But running international drug empires in Bali can also be a highly risky business, with terrible consequences for those caught and convicted.
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.
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- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home - of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.
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Great read
- By Diane Dodge on 09-14-19
By: Shaun Assael
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Hell's Angel
- The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
- By: Sonny Barger
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.
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A must for any true biker
- By Chris B on 06-20-15
By: Sonny Barger
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Digging Up Mother
- A Love Story
- By: Johnny Depp - foreword, Doug Stanhope
- Narrated by: Doug Stanhope and Friends
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie.
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Not my thing.
- By J. Harral on 01-27-18
By: Johnny Depp - foreword, and others
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Saltwater Cowboy
- The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
- By: Tim McBride, Ralph Berrier Jr.
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was 21, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit.
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Great made even better by the fact it's non fictio
- By Porkchop on 01-11-18
By: Tim McBride, and others
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Road Dogs
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Jack Foley is serving a 30-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from 30 years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.
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Pretty fine Elmore Leonard.
- By Richard Delman on 07-26-12
By: Elmore Leonard
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- By: Abdel Sellou
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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loved it
- By RockyDog on 01-31-19
By: Abdel Sellou
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The Rabbit Factory
- By: Marshall Karp
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- By MidwestGeek on 12-19-12
By: Marshall Karp
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No Angel
- My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
- By: Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols - these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.
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"I would avoid this one..."
- By Chris on 12-27-12
By: Jay Dobyns, and others
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- By: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- By Russell on 07-21-17
By: Wayne Worcester, and others
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- Guffb
- 06-23-16
WOW MAN Great accent
If you could sum up Snowing in Bali in three words, what would they be?
Raw – Crazy – Captivating
Which character – as performed by Nicholas Bell – was your favorite?
Rafael – Funny accent that the narrator was excellent at portraying.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
laugh
Any additional comments?
Would make a great movie!
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- Lindsey Garrett
- 04-09-21
Captivating
Great book! Really captivating! I couldn’t put it down, finished it in a couple days
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- GoBlueKim
- 04-13-17
Page-turner ... so to speak
I hated to press pause. This book is fantastic. You become so interested in the lives of the subjects, not necessarily hoping that they'll succeed in their illegal activities but hoping that they will get out the game before they die.
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- LCW
- 04-23-17
Oversensationalized
Great narration. Enjoyed the book. Neat to get the scoop, but not sure about the way the guys were portrayed. Seems the author was humanizing them a bit too much. Feel like there has to be more to the story. The excitement of the "game" was glamorized a bit too much for my taste. Would recommend it! ...just proceed with some cognitive distance and healthy skepticism.
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- Rachel
- 11-12-18
Interesting Look at the Drug Trade in Bali
An interesting look at the drug trade in the 1990s/early 2000s in Bali, Indonesia. The stories are primarily from the perspective of the bosses or the near-bosses. The system is corrupt, people are desperate for money or new things to do and many tourists come with significant cash to spend. It is amazing what people are willing to risk for a live hard lifestyle.
It does get rather repetitive and the book could have been reduced by at least 20%. Some of the clever ways of smuggling drugs in are no longer clever 20 mentioned later (despite the author suggesting otherwise). I also wished there were more perspectives from the desperate drug mules, since that's a whole different motive for acting.
#Bali #Crime #DrugTrade #CrimeInParadise #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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- Chris/Colby
- 02-19-16
Very good
decided to download this after seeing it in the airport in Singapore, fascinating book! Ended up arriving in Thailand and not even leaving my hotel room for the first day and a half just to listen to it all the way through. Worth a quick listen for sure
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- Rissl
- 04-24-16
Thrilling!
After reading Hotel K (by the same author) I just need I had to read this as well. I downloaded the audio version to listen to during my commute and, right from the first chapter, just couldn't stop listening! Numerous times I found myself sitting in the carpark at work out home and couldn't get out of the car.
Kathryn writes in such an engaging way and tells the story so well I found myself feeling sorry for the dealers!
Just when you think you've heard it all you'll be gobsmacked by the next idea, event, thought. It's just thrilling.
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- David
- 12-18-12
Awesome Book
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
For Sure!
Great look into the dark side of Bali that many suspect yet never see up close--thanks god!
Who was your favorite character and why?
Rafael- He lived the life in every way!
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- P. Wieringa
- 04-01-17
Teenage Boys Dream of Drug King's Life ;-(
Would you try another book from Kathryn Bonella and/or Nicholas Bell?
Not likely
What could Kathryn Bonella have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
More about the Police, government policy, busting them etc less hero worship of the druggies.
What does Nicholas Bell bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Intonation
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
BOREDOM ;-(
Any additional comments?
Don't read or listen to it.
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