Betrayed
The Incredible Untold Inside Story of the Two Most Unlikely Drug-Running Grannies in Australian History
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Sandi Logan
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Sandi Logan
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WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023
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.
©2022 Sandi Logan (P)2022 Hachette Australia Pty LtdWhat listeners say about Betrayed
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- Christopher Steel
- 05-07-2022
Recommend
A gripping non-fiction story of travel, deceit, the narcotics trade and two women caught up in it all. After just finishing the novel I now feel that I almost know the strong protagonists, Bezie and Todie, as if they are my aunts. Recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2022
An incredible true story
I have just read this book! Oh my goodness my Facebook friends please either read or listen to this book! “Betrayed” it is a true recount of “The Drug Grannies” from 1978! Most of us were only 15 years old when these two friends aged 58 years old and 60 years old (who trusted a nephew) to drive a Combie van across the world for a “trip of a life time”. They did not realise what they were carrying in the Combie Van! The rest is history and thank goodness for Sandi Logan who played an intricate role in assisting these women to be released and deported back to their home!
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- Leonnie Yip
- 04-07-2022
Untold truth revealed.
Excellent book. Well researched, produced and presented. Thoroughly recommended to all true crime readers
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