Books Published

Christopher V. V. Parnell

Author

The Sunday Smuggler Hell's Prisoner Aimless

Authors Note: The Title "The Sunday Smuggler" published HarperCollins is the same book retitled and published as "Hell's Prisoner" by Mainstream Publishers

BOOKS PUBLISHED

THE SUNDAY SMUGGLER

HarperCollins BIOGRAPHY/TRUE CRIME

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The true story of an innocent Australian's eleven years in Indonesia's most notorious prisons.

Christopher Parnell was on holiday with his family in Bali when the unthinkable happened. Their holiday complex was raided and police claimed to have uncovered 12.5kg of hashish. Parnell and a travelling companion were immediately arrested. His companion was later released and left Bali as soon as the charges against him were dropped.

While Parnell awaited trial, his friend signed a statutory declaration back in Australia to say that the drugs had belonged to him. He admitted he had been afraid to face Indonesian justice but believed the mix up would be rectified and Parnell released. Instead, Parnell was sentenced to the death penalty. That sentence was later reduced to 20 years and a fine of US$30,000.

Over the next 11 years, Parnell was subjected to unthinkable sessions of torture. Left to starve and fight every day for his survival, Parnell became a man forced to eat everything from cockroaches to human flesh.

The Sunday Smuggler
Author: Christopher Parnell
Book Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 288 pages
Number of illustrations: Photo section 16
Height & Width: 20.9cm x 13.5cm
ISBN: 0732271762
Price (Aust RRP): $24.95
Publication Date: 29 May 2002

AIMLESS

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This is a fictional story packed with characters as colorful as a rainbow which I wrote during my imprisonment. It's a story of young girl who dies and goes to heaven only to find that God is on a Holiday and as it is written in the Bible, on the seventh day. God rested. Well then... just how long is one day in the life of God?

For those of you who are about to read Aimless let me first fill you in on the books origin. it is a fictional book in parts but within the story line I have woven a number of true events.

Naturally for all concerned I have changed the names of my characters as Law suits can be downright annoying not to mention expensive.

Once the reader starts this book it will be up to them to work out just who are the real characters and who are the fictional. this also applies to the various events which will pop up between the story lines.

The idea of Aimless came to me while serving a 20 year prison sentence in Indonesia. I was serving my 9th year of imprisonment of which over 3 years of that was spent in solitary confinement. it was while I was serving the last months of this particular punishment sentence in Malang Prison, which is in the central highlands of Java. where Aimless was truly born.

To keep my sanity, I desperately needed to laugh... and to at least feel good under the oppression, the hunger,, and the violent beatings. Though in their won ways they were bearable. what was the hardest thing for me to handle was the loneliness. I was the only white man in this Asian Prison. It was this loneliness and this desperate need to laugh again which enabled me to dig deep within my own memories and recall all the funny thins that had happened to me and those around me.

Aimless
Author: Christopher Parnell
Book Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 411 pages
Price (Aust RRP): $24.95
Publication Date: 22 December 2005

HELL'S PRISONER

Mainstream Publishers U.K.

BIOGRAPHY/TRUE CRIME

(U.K. Version of "The Sunday Smuggler" Publication June 2003)

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