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

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

Nonfiction, Travel, Asia, Southeast, Social & Cultural Studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

• Author: Jon Cole
• ISBN: 9789814358330
• Publisher: Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
• Publication: January 16, 2012
• Imprint: Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
• Language: English

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