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After the publication of his first novel, the bestselling shantaram, he spent ten years working as an ambassador for charitable and social justice organisations, and as a philosophical consultant to leaders and philanthropic foundations. Anybody able to find any info about an audiobook version. Shantaram book series is written by gregory david roberts and consists of two books shantaram and the mountain shadow. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from pentridge prison in 1980 and fled to india, where he lived for ten years. The mountain shadow by gregory david roberts world of books. The longawaited sequel to shantaram by gregory david roberts. Read pdf the mountain shadow absolutely for free at. Gregory david roberts escaped from a maximumsecurity facility and spent ten years on the run, and ten years in prison. The mountain shadow by gregory david roberts editor. A sequel in a planned tetralogy of novels, it is likely to please many shantaram fans. Read shantaram by gregory david roberts prewiew online. Gregory david roberts the mountain shadow epub download by. Sentenced to nineteen years in prison for a series of armed robberies, he escaped and spent ten of his fugitive years in bombaywhere he established a free medical clinic for slumdwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street soldier for a branch of. Although, some parts of the novel are definitely based on roberts known biography, while the rest are impossible to.
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