A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. In the early 80’s, the author, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum.

There, he established a free health clinic and joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, street soldier and forger. He learned Hindi and Marathi, fell in love, got worked over in an Indian jail, acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.

He wrote his story three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions.