From paradise to prison

American ex-pat framed in a tropical nightmare

- by DANIEL D. KAGE

Prisoner in Paradise blends true crime and supernatural horror—as idyllic island life turns into a fight for survival behind bars

KEN (surname withheld for fear of reprisals from the corrupt officials who extorted him) was a former music industry insider managing three Top Ten bands, then United Nations communications consultant in Africa and Asia, and then boutique hotel owner.

He never imagined that his tropical paradise existence would become a prison. But in 2021, his world collapsed when his girlfriend, Isabel, a secret drug dealer, and her crystal meth smoking brother, Louis, with ties to the island's Narcotics Chief, framed him for trafficking and then threatened him with life imprisonment if he didn't cough up $250,000.

'One minute, I was living in paradise. The next, I was locked in a cell where the walls whispered curses,' the author recalls in his gripping new memoir,