An internationally bestselling account of one of the world’s most
notorious drug-smuggler jails.
Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan
Jail, Bali’s most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of
sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K has become home to a procession of the
infamous and the tragic, from the Bali Bombers to the Bali Nine.
In Hotel Kerobokan’s filthy, cramped and disease-ridden cells, a ‘United Nations of
prisoners’ – Australians, Americans, Germans, Brazilians, French, English, Scottish,
Mexicans, Italians – live crushed together in misery. Petty thieves and small-time drug
users 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 an
ecstasy tablet.
Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild ‘sex nights’
organised by corrupt guards for prisoners who have the money to pay, the rampant drug use, the
suicides and killings, and the days out at the beach. It takes you behind the grim walls and exposes
the jail’s role in supplying high-grade drugs to tourists and dealers on the outside, the gang that
rules the jail with terror, the corruption that means anything is for sale, and the squalor and misery
endured by prisoners in stinking, overcrowded conditions.