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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Peter Brewer

Hollywood beckons for former ACT public servant's hot-selling true crime tale

Flashback to 1982, and author Sandi Logan visiting the prison where American "drug grannies" Vera "Toddie" Hayes, left, and Florice "Beezie" Bessire were being held. Picture: Supplied

A former Canberra senior public servant is poised to have his first literary effort adapted for film, with his true crime tale of two unlikely drug "mules" attracting strong US interest as a potential Hollywood feature.

It's an exciting late career turn for retired journalist, ministerial advisor, police spokesman and senior immigration department official Sandi Logan, whose revelatory true crime story Betrayed appears destined to be adapted for the big screen.

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