I did. I fell in love with an enchanting Balinese girl and moved to the Island of the Gods. Twenty years later my children and I fled Bali ahead of plans for murder.

Six years on, the nightmare has not ended. We can't return to Bali, while their mother refuses to leave Bali to see her children. Legal cases, including criminal investigations, in both Indonesia and California drag on.

Through those six years, I eventually discovered that what I had once mistaken for vague family problems were in fact events in a plan stretching back to the earliest days of our marriage, involving false Hindu ceremonies and fraudulent documents and backed by members of the Bali community, police, courts, public prosecutors – even my own attorneys at one of the best-known law offices in Bali - in a stunning deception by a group known in Indonesia as a "Law Mafia," or in Bali, as a "Mafia of the Gods."

I am a writer, so I wrote a book. I believe - and I'm happy my early readers agree - that Eleven Demons rivals any novel in intricate plot, memorable characters, and ever-mounting suspense. Eleven Demons is a thriller, a love story, a glimpse into a world of faith and dark magic, a journey through an exotic land, an essential primer of Indonesian law, a history of an astonishing case, an exploration of the limits of loyalty and greed. It is not, however, a map of shortcuts to Paradise.

Yes, at last! A Kindle ebook version of Eleven Demons is finally available on Amazon.com HERE. The print version will be available within two weeks. Over the next month or two it should appear on sites in the U.S., the U.K, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, and elsewhere.

For the next few weeks the ebook price is USD 5.99, but it will go up to USD 9.99 once the print version is out and promotion begins.

One advantage of self-publishing is that promotion can build slowly. I expect Eleven Demons, with its unusual starting-niche, to take two years to reach its full potential. But in contrast to writing a book, managing promotions, social media tie-ins, and news events is a kind of business I am long familiar with. I have even received an enquiry about a documentary film—one of the good things about living in Los Angeles!

But in the meantime, many other things are happening, all to be collected in the new feature on this website—not too sure yet what to call it—so uluwatu.com should grow more interesting as we go.

The story of Eleven Demons would seem scarcely believable were it not thoroughly documented through court, police, and other legal and personal documents.

I started this website to assemble documents and explain their significance for presentations to courts and police in Indonesia and California.

Reading legal documents is, however,
WARNING
extraordinarily boring.

Moreover, it was three years before I myself understood what my wife, her family, and her associates had done. By then the case was so vast and complex that it was difficult to convey in a simple report.

But I eventually realized that the more complex the story, the more intriging the tale.

So this website now serves as verifiable references to the events related in Eleven Demons. Summary provides a quick overview. Step ahead using the Next buttons for a full view of the cases, or view Documents for the original background documentation.

But if you just want a ripping good story, read Eleven Demons.