Things go wrong in a big way for Candy Somerville when her father
commits suicide. Feeling herself responsible, she is driven by
guilt into a journey to Thailand on an insane mission. When she
arrives in Bangkok in 1992 during the uprising against the military
junta, a large amount of heroin is found in her baggage, leading to
her imprisonment on a capital charge, in the infamous Klong Prem
prison. Her father's old friend, a consul at the embassy, offers to
get her legal help but she refuses to talk to him. Her brother and
their uncle arrive from Sydney expecting to at least win her bail
from prison, but she violently rejects their assistance. Sensing a
story, the beautiful Bangkok correspondent for a Sydney television
channel works on the brother for information. Meanwhile, the consul
and her uncle manage to bribe a corrupt Army colonel to release
Candy from prison. Much to her dismay, she is released. And then
the colonel discovers he has been compromised by a news report
about h
General
Imprint: |
Indra Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Australia |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
December 2004 |
Authors: |
Robert Morrison
|
Dimensions: |
219 x 139 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
139 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-920787-04-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-920787-04-6 |
Barcode: |
9781920787042 |
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