What I am reading - Hotel K

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise: sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.

Hotel K’s filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay’s brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves 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 pill.

”This book is dedicated to anyone travelling to the tropical paradise of Bali. Be careful. It could be a holiday you never forget. Even one ecstasy pill could cost you thousands of dollars and a stint in the hellhole Hotel Kerobokan.” – Author Kathryn Bonella.

”Now I realize how precious pure laughter is, it’s amazing. Even a smile is very rare here. A laugh is priceless.” – Inmate

”It’s like the end of the world. It’s crazy. You feel dead when you’re breathing. You just want to get drunk to take your mind out of this place.” – Mick, Australian inmate

”So many times I drive past those walls; I could never have imagined what happens inside. What happens inside goes far beyond my imagination before.” – Ruggiero, Brazilian inmate

The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page, a true page turner!