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Zusatztext Killing Time is a cracking prison tale that exposes the corrupt! violent underbelly of one of the world's most "glamorous" cities. Informationen zum Autor Karl Williams is a singer-songwriter and musician and who performs under the name Ceaser London and has toured with Maverick Sabre. He is a classically trained pianist and accomplished flute player and he also models for clothing brand Gabicci. Arrested whilst on holiday in Dubai, The Killing Time is his story of his time wrongfully imprisoned in Dubai's most notorious prisons. Klappentext An electric cattle prod was being used to torture me, sending waves of electricity into my body. I screamed out in pain . . . As I regained my vision I found myself staring down the barrel of a gun. Karl Williams was on a dream holiday in Dubai 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. Locked up in prison, they found themselves in a hellish world where men 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, you were screwed. Karl was a survivor, making friends with the local gangsters, Russian Mafia and assorted murderers, drug dealers, fraudsters and hapless innocents he encountered behind bars. But it was hard to stay positive when facing a life sentence or the death penalty . . . Raw, gripping and at times brutally funny, Killing Time takes you behind the shiny desert paradise to the heart of the real Dubai. The shocking true story of an innocent Brit locked up in Dubai's most notorious prison. Zusammenfassung As seen in BBC3's documentary series High: Surviving a Dubai Drugs Bust , Karl Williams describes being banged up in brutal conditions in this gritty autobiography. Karl 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 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. ...
