The result is an epic tale of slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison torture, mafia gang wars and Bollywood films. His debut novel, SHANTARAM, is based on this ten-year period of his life in Bombay. He was recruited by one of the most charismatic branches of the Bombay mafia for whom he worked as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler, and fought alongside a unit of mujaheddin guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. Hiding in Bombay, he established a medical clinic for slum- dwellers, worked in the Bollywood film industry and served time in the notorious Arthur Road prison. After two years, he escaped from a maximum- security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as Australia's most wanted man.
Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies.
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