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Backfire: The Long Way Home

Backfire: The Long Way Home


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Backfire is the gripping true story of two young Americans whose hunger for adventure, ambition, and easy money led them far beyond the safety of their suburban California upbringing-and straight into one of the most notorious prisons in Europe. In the late 1960s, Tom and the narrator were bright, restless, and convinced they were too clever for ordinary lives. Dropping out of college, they mapped a plan to smuggle hashish from Afghanistan to Europe. With detailed logistics, calculated risk-taking, and a confidence born more of naivety than experience, they traveled the overland route through Asia, completed the buy in Kabul, and miraculously made it across six international borders. The scheme worked-until it didn't. When the illusion of control collapsed at the edge of safety, the consequences proved far more brutal than they ever imagined. Arrested on circumstantial evidence and extradited to Greece, the two friends found themselves trapped in a justice system with little regard for youth or good intentions. Their plan for quick riches backfired into years of imprisonment, self-reckoning, and painful transformation. This is more than a tale of crime and punishment-it's a raw, unflinching account of how easily intelligence becomes arrogance, how adventure tips into disaster, and how redemption often begins in the darkest places. Told with emotional honesty, dark humor, and a sharp eye for detail, Backfire is a sobering reminder of how quickly choices made in youth can spiral into a lifetime's reckoning. From the streets of Kabul to the cells of Athens, this is the true story of one man's journey from self-deception to self-awareness, and the high price paid for a single bad decision carried too far.



About the Author :
David Kunkel's appetite for adventure once led him far beyond safe borders. In 1969, that hunger landed him inside a Greek prison under a military dictatorship, facing the consequences of a hashish smuggling scheme gone wrong. His experience became the foundation for Locked Up Abroad: An Alaskan's True Story of Adventure, Incarceration, and Escape, a raw, honest, and unflinching account of youth, ambition, survival, and redemption. After serving time and ultimately escaping captivity, Kunkel rebuilt his life with quiet resilience. He worked as an electrical design drafter and later settled in Alaska, where distance and reflection gave him the perspective to write his story. His memoir not only inspired readers across the globe but became the subject of the internationally broadcast documentary series Locked Up Abroad (titled Banged Up Abroad in the UK), dramatized in the gripping episode Greek Border Bust. Kunkel is a graduate of San Jose State University and has worked professionally as an electrical design drafter. David Kunkel's story stands as a powerful cautionary tale and a testament to the human will-not to escape consequence, but to rise from it.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781594338984
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1594338981
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 254
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Long Way Home
  • Width: 140 mm


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