Aaron Cohen has been in the headlines for years. Many people think they know his story. They are wrong.
Sydney 18-year-old Aaron Cohen and his mother, prostitute, heroin dealer Lorraine, were arrested at Penang Airport in 1985 and charged with trafficking heroin. This is the story of the son of Kings Cross dealers.
At 8 he was smuggling heroin out of the house under the noses of the police when his drug dealing parents were raided.
At 15 he was using heroin every day.
At 17 he was earning $1200 a week dealing cocaine.
At 18 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Penang Prison plus six strokes of the cane for drug trafficking.
At 29 he was pardoned and his life began.
This book reveals for the first time the real reason Aaron and Lorraine went to Penang. It tells how in jail the 18-year-old learned the hard way how to look after himself, with some help from fellow Australians Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers. How heroin became the focus of his life in jail - while he waited years to see if he would hang.
