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Killing Time

Surviving Dubai's Most Notorious Prisons

By (author) Karl Williams
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Published: 26th Jan 2017
Dimensions: w 127mm h 203mm d 20mm
Weight: 386g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 1447295250
ISBN-13: 9781447295259
Barcode No: 9781447295259
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Karl Williams was on holiday in Dubai, living it large with two English friends, when they were accused of drug dealing, arrested, and tortured by police. They were innocent, but the authorities didn't care. And so began their year-long nightmare as they were locked up in Port Rashid where prisoners of all nationalities were crammed into stinking cells, violence could erupt in seconds, and control of the jail was in the hands of a few powerful inmates. Unless you knew the right people and could work the system, you were screwed. Karl was a survivor and managed to rise up the prison pecking order, making friends with local gangsters, Russian mafia and other assorted murderers, drug dealers, fraudsters and hapless innocents he encountered behind bars. But it was hard to stay positive when facing life or the death penalty . . . and then he was moved to the notorious Central prison, a terrifying place where HIV positive prisoners were used by gangsters to infect their enemies; and murders and rape were common. When Karl had lost all hope of finding justice, Reprieve, an organization of committed human rights defenders, took up his case . . . Raw, totally gripping, and at times brutally funny, Killing Time takes you behind the shiny desert paradise to the heart of the real Dubai.

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Killing Time is a cracking prison tale that exposes the corrupt, violent underbelly of one of the world's most "glamorous" cities. -- Rusty Young, author of <i>Marching Powder</i>