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FOREWORD

There’s something about Bali . . .

. . . And drug dealers

They’re a perfect fit – with Bali’s myriad hotels, sun, surf, millions of tourists, an endless stream of the world’s biggest drug bosses and a strong culture of corruption, the party paradise is the ideal place to play the drug game.

That is, until you go down.

You are living the dream until you bust and all the reality comes so fast and so bad . . . this game is fucking dangerous.

– International drug boss, busted in Bali in 2012
with nearly a kilo of cocaine

Snowing in Bali has evolved organically out of my other two books, Hotel Kerobokan and Schapelle Corby’s My Story. I think of them as my Bali trilogy, as each one was inspired by the previous and there’s a crossover of characters and themes in all three.

Writing Schapelle’s book opened my eyes to the bizarre, crazy world of Hotel K. Sitting in the jail every day for a couple of months interviewing Schapelle, I saw the sex and the violence first hand, and the experience of getting to know many of the prisoners inspired Hotel Kerobokan. The subsequent researching for and writing of Hotel Kerobokan gave me insight into island life, and the fact that outside the white walls of the jail, Bali

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