Australian Scott Rush is serving a life sentence in Hotel K for strapping heroin to his body and attempting to smuggle it from Bali to Sydney. He was part of syndicate of nine young Aussie traffickers - dubbed the Bali 9; two are now on death row. This is a photo of Scott Rush after a Hotel K tennis match.
Published: 2011-02-23
NEWS of the World Review - HOTEL K; BOOKS
20 February 2011
HOTEL K is the ironic nickname given to Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison.
Home to some violent and dangerous criminals as well as petty crooks, Hotel K has housed everyone from the Bali Bombers to Gordon Ramsay's druggie brother Ronnie.
Kathryn Bonella leaves no stone unturned in her exploration of the history of this jail. But with all the sex, drugs and violence, you sometimes feel as if Hotel K is unwittingly glamorising a seedy underworld, where everything can be bought.
With descriptions sometimes almost TOO shocking, it paints a vivid picture of the horrors faced by the inmates on a daily basis. (Quercus $13.99)
