Betrayed

Name: Betrayed
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780733648601
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The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history

By Sandi Logan

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In Betrayed by Sandi Logan, readers are drawn into a gripping tale set within the crime underworld. The story centres around a complex web of deceit and intrigue as characters navigate twists and unexpected turns. With its vivid depiction of betrayal and loyalty, the book offers a thrilling exploration of moral dilemmas and suspenseful action.
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Betrayed

The relentlessly fascinating, sometimes hilarious and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who became unwitting drug mules by driving a hashish-laden campervan from Stuttgart to Bombay, then later to Australia, where they were arrested and jailed.

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WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023 WINNER OF THE UK TRUE CRIME AWARD FOR BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2024 Betrayed is a relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies'. In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices would secretly pack two tonnes of hashish into the vehicle along the way. This shocking inside story chronicles Toddie and Beezie's wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, their arrest by Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, and all that the women faced in the aftermath. On the ground at the time, journalist Sandi Logan draws from his interviews with those attached to the events, and accounts in the women's diaries, to tell the incredible tale of an unlikely pair who became infamous and their fight for justice.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780733648601

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hachette Australia

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 352

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Biography & Memoir Crime & Thriller Fiction Sandi Logan True Crime

About the Author

After a career in journalism spanning a decade from 1974, Sandi Logan joined the Australian foreign service and undertook postings to PNG, Bonn and Washington, DC, before returning to Canberra as a spokesperson for various departments, agencies and ministers until consulting in communications strategy from 2014.

He not only reported on the Drug Grannies' plight after their sentencing in early 1978, but actively fought for their release. He interviewed them extensively, and has exclusive ownership of the women's diaries, writings/musings, correspondence, birthday and Christmas cards (during imprisonment), scrapbooks, extensive photographs and travel documents, including their deportation and 'freedom' orders.

Author website: sandiloganauthor.com