Booktopia has been placed into Voluntary Administration. Orders have been temporarily suspended, whilst the process for the recapitalisation of Booktopia and/or sale of its business is completed, following which services may be re-established. All enquiries from creditors, including customers with outstanding gift cards and orders and placed prior to 3 July 2024, please visit https://www.mcgrathnicol.com/creditors/booktopia-group/
Add free shipping to your order with these great books
The Trial of Maximo Bonga : The Story of the Strangest Guesthouse in South East Asia - John Harris

The Trial of Maximo Bonga

The Story of the Strangest Guesthouse in South East Asia

By: John Harris

eBook | 11 June 2015

At a Glance

eBook


$11.99

Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App

There was someone standing further along the beach, facing out to sea. An old man dressed in... I blinked... battle fatigues? Second World War U.S. by the looks of the helmet. I looked on for a moment, squinting into the sun-streaked coconut smoke.
'You won't like Bonga's Guest House, I can tell you now. Maximo Bonga...'
said the fisherman's wife. She was lost for words, shaking her head.
'Maximum Bongo?' I asked.'Bonga,' she said. 'It means flamboyant.'
Based on a true story
On one of South East Asia's most remote beaches, a young woman's body is found. The corrupt local police think they have found the perfect fall guy in Maximo Bonga - cantankerous World War Two veteran and owner of the weirdest guesthouse in town.
But unbeknownst to them, an unlikely friendship has been forged between Maximo and John, one of the boarders of Maximo's guest-house-cum-boot-camp, where an old machine gun and camouflaged mantraps stand guard, sandbags form fences and a tyrannical pet rooster terrorises the guests. Along with an eccentric bunch of modern-world rejects, John sets out to defend the old soldier in a kangaroo court set up at the local cockpit, in a paradise like no other.

on

More in Travel Writing

Venetian Dreaming - Paula Weideger

eBOOK

State by State : A Panoramic Portrait of America - Matt Weiland

eBOOK

This product is categorised by