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Party Time: Raving Arizona (English Shaun Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Shaun Attwood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"The UK rave scene meets The Wolf of Wall Street and ends in The Shawshank Redemption" - Jon Ronson author of The Psychopath Test

Shaun Attwood arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, a penniless business graduate from a small industrial town in England. Within a decade, he became a stock-market millionaire. But he was leading a double life.

After taking his first Ecstasy pill at a rave in Manchester as a shy student, Shaun became intoxicated by the party lifestyle that would change his fortune. Years later, in the Arizona desert, Shaun became submerged in a criminal underworld, throwing parties for thousands of ravers and running an Ecstasy ring in competition with the Mafia mass murderer Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano.

As greed and excess tore through his life, Shaun had eye-watering encounters with Mafia hit men and crystal-meth addicts, enjoyed extravagant debauchery with superstar DJs and glitter girls, and ingested enough drugs to kill a herd of elephants. This is his story.
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"The UK rave scene meets The Wolf of Wall Street and ends in The Shawshank Redemption" - Jon Ronson author of The Psychopath Test

"If you like Breaking Bad, you'll love Party Time. Shaun Attwood was the Walter White of the Ecstasy market in Arizona" - DJ Keoki

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Shaun Attwood is the author of Hard Time: A Brit in America's Toughest Jail. He regularly speaks to audiences of young people about the perils of drugs and the horrors of prison life.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078ZNLFT8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gadfly Press (April 13 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3435 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
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"Shaun's trilogy is the Manchester rave scene meets The Wolf of Wall Street and ends in The Shawshank Redemption" - Jon Ronson author of The Psychopath Test

"If you like Breaking Bad, you will love Shaun's trilogy. Shaun Attwood was the Walter White of the Ecstasy market in Arizona" - DJ Keoki

Shaun Attwood is a former stock-market millionaire and Ecstasy trafficker turned YouTuber, public speaker, author and activist, who is banned from America for life. His story was featured worldwide on National Geographic Channel as an episode of Locked Up/Banged Up Abroad called Raving Arizona.

Shaun’s writing – smuggled out of the jail with the highest death rate in America run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio – attracted international media attention to the human rights violations: murders by guards and gang members, dead rats in the food, cockroach infestations…

Shaun arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, a penniless business graduate from a small industrial town in England. Within a decade, he became a stock-market millionaire. But he was leading a double life.

After taking his first Ecstasy pill at a rave in Manchester as a shy student, Shaun became intoxicated by the party lifestyle that would change his fortune. Years later in the Arizona desert, Shaun became submerged in a criminal underworld, throwing parties for thousands of ravers and running an Ecstasy ring in competition with the Mafia mass murderer Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano.

On May 16th 2002, a SWAT team knocked his door down. He ended up in the jail with the highest rate of death in America, where not only gang members but even guards were murdering prisoners. Shaun documented the conditions using a golf pencil sharpened on the door: dead rats in the food, the techniques he used to sleep with cockroaches crawling on him, gang mayhem and violence... His aunt smuggled his writing out of the jail, and his blog, Jon's Jail Journal, turned the international media spotlight on the conditions.

Facing a life sentence, Shaun entered a lengthy legal battle. After two years of being held on remand, Shaun was convicted of drug offences. He was sentenced to 9½ years, and served almost 6.

Shaun had only read finance books prior to his arrest. While incarcerated, he submerged himself in literature - reading over 1000 books, including many classics. By studying original texts in psychology and philosophy, he sought to better understand himself and his past behaviour. He credits books for being the lifeblood of his rehabilitation.

Shaun was released in December 2007, and continues to campaign against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He keeps Jon's Jail Journal going by posting stories mailed to him by his prison friends.

In July 2008, he won a Koestler award for a short story, which he read to an audience at the Royal Festival Hall.

Shaun presently lives near London, and talks to audiences of young people across the UK and Europe about his experiences and the consequences of getting involved in drugs and crime.

Shaun's life story is the English Shaun Trilogy: Party Time, Hard Time and Prison Time. In 2014, Hard Time was rewritten, greatly expanded and published as a second edition. Shaun's fourth book is a self-help called Lessons.

As a best-selling true-crime author, Shaun is writing a series of action-packed books exposing the War on Drugs, including Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel, who are featured on the Netflix series Narcos.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best true crime
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2024
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The best true crime. Needs to be a series
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Rajendhran Tp
4.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in India on December 15, 2023
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Mr. D. Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars Meisterwerk - Best of the Trilogy
Reviewed in France on August 26, 2022
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As part of the English Shaun Trilogy, “Party Time” stands out distinctly from the other two. They all share common themes – drugs, sex, violence, and madness – but the singular, discerning factor is that “Party Time” takes place in the outside world, and therefore in a free society seemingly without limits or any kind of retribution. And here lies the dichotomy. “Hard Time” and “Prison Time” both have fixed parameters in the sense that they take place in the regimented and institutionalised confines of the penal system. Although there are lockdowns and riot teams, there are plenty of atrocities which still take place, due to the concentration of a small sector of hardcore criminal male inmates in a controlled environment. And I stress the word ‘controlled’.

This alone, perhaps, makes “Party Time” the most feral book of the series, because it is savage and utterly wild. Given the mountain of substances and the substance abuse reported, Mr Attwood has only added fuel to the fire in that he openly documents such crazy, detailed and deranged stories that even Bowie, the Gallagher brothers, or Happy Mondays might begin to scratch their heads and question whether they were on the right drug, let alone the right dose.

One strong, redeeming feature of this book is that Mr Attwood is upfront and honest. At times, almost too honest. He gives away far too much, but is this is to his credit. Who is chasing him and why? What does he hope to get from his efforts building a drugs empire and beyond money, why take the risk? On various occasions, he sees the warning signs and even in retrospect we get the sense that he is “Wise After the Event.” He does reveal the need for approval and admiration and in this sense, Attwood rolls up all the blinds to reveal the whys and wherefores of what he does and what makes him tick. Above all, Attwood is humble. He admits his failings. He admits his mistakes. And in this sense, he is redeemable, and ultimately likeable. It’s impossible to bring people back from the dead, or repair damaged lives because of drugs, but it’s important to understand that people who use, do so through freedom of choice.

In “Party Time”, Mr Attwood succeeds in tearing up the rule book, flaunting the law, offers complete disregard in following even gangster protocol when he needs to, and goes one step further in protecting the crazy Englishmen he loves. How can this be possible?

After ending “Party Time” I was left speechless. How can a felon like Attwood get away with this? I was left foot-stomping along with Detective Reid trying to work it all out.

The “Thinking Tree” would surely have shrivelled and died by now, given the volume of poisonous fruit hanging from its branches. But no, Wild Man turns the whole thing to hooch and we are left thinking about the real villains. Revenge is one thing, but I won’t go into that here.

I disliked Detective Reid, right from the start, but somehow there are other characters like Skinner who are equally questionable. If not worse.

Ultimately, in the most crazy of these three books, Mr Attwood finds love, he finds intuition, and later on humility. Attwood also finds redemption in an honourable and deserving way. If we question Mr Attwood for all he did, for all his evil ways, we must in turn forgive him for all his integrity and honesty. Reading the entire English Shaun Trilogy, I am convinced he is one of the true crusaders of our times who can reach out to the next generation and make a difference.

May Peter rest in peace, may Peter sit easily in the branches of the Thinking Tree – where he felt safe – until, at least, Shaun, you can get there to be with him, and then we can bless him and praise what you have set out to do with this trilogy – and indeed, Gadfly.

I enjoyed this book immensely. I appreciated the impartial role call at the end. Overall, Meisterwerk.

Thank you for your honesty, Mr Attwood. This was a mighty memoir to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars MDMAzing ;)
Reviewed in Germany on December 19, 2018
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Sehr gutes Buch. Shaun erzählt glaubwürdig, mitreißend und frei. Absoluter Kracher!
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Ekualo Blanc
5.0 out of 5 stars A dissimilitude story like no other revolving drugs, partying, and ecstasy!
Reviewed in Australia on June 5, 2019
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A dissimilitude story like no other revolving drugs, partying, and ecstasy!

English Shaun for it again, that includes another cut-throat story, one dissimilitude like no other, globetrotting to the United States of America, ending up in Arizona, before one can say Jack Robinson, and shortly after arriving to the states, then becoming his residence and root base, where by he had to do his work, as the story moves over his past time. His story line reads well and with a prodigiously mannered approach which genuinely makes buyers take an adventure and trip into the past life of a stylish and cool substance king pin who took the rave scene by storm in Arizona years ago, when the time was vine ripened for exporting drugs on aeroplanes, in carry on luggage and with very little on stealth necessary for success in shipping the product over to his new found country, as he talks about his methods and strategies in smuggling drugs, that primarily XTC pills, with beige Mitsubishi's becoming the highlight press, yet wanting each time a press of clean MDMA from his chemists, and batches of XTC pills, which Shaun speaks about with the level of quality of specified pills which he monitored carefully each time, in order to really import the best from Europe pills one could find, and thus meeting Shaun's distinct and explicit requirements, for his happy customer base, and friends he dealt with. Sad the man had to go to the penal system, which he carries over into his next book, which I have also read, which was as stunning and eye opening as the prior, and the latter to it.
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Ekualo Blanc
5.0 out of 5 stars A dissimilitude story like no other revolving drugs, partying, and ecstasy!
Reviewed in Australia on June 5, 2019
A dissimilitude story like no other revolving drugs, partying, and ecstasy!

English Shaun for it again, that includes another cut-throat story, one dissimilitude like no other, globetrotting to the United States of America, ending up in Arizona, before one can say Jack Robinson, and shortly after arriving to the states, then becoming his residence and root base, where by he had to do his work, as the story moves over his past time. His story line reads well and with a prodigiously mannered approach which genuinely makes buyers take an adventure and trip into the past life of a stylish and cool substance king pin who took the rave scene by storm in Arizona years ago, when the time was vine ripened for exporting drugs on aeroplanes, in carry on luggage and with very little on stealth necessary for success in shipping the product over to his new found country, as he talks about his methods and strategies in smuggling drugs, that primarily XTC pills, with beige Mitsubishi's becoming the highlight press, yet wanting each time a press of clean MDMA from his chemists, and batches of XTC pills, which Shaun speaks about with the level of quality of specified pills which he monitored carefully each time, in order to really import the best from Europe pills one could find, and thus meeting Shaun's distinct and explicit requirements, for his happy customer base, and friends he dealt with. Sad the man had to go to the penal system, which he carries over into his next book, which I have also read, which was as stunning and eye opening as the prior, and the latter to it.
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