DAMAGE DONE: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. This is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime, but he endured and survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination and even the most hardened criminal would appear an innocent inside the barbaric prison system he endured. It's a gruelling cautionary tale reminiscent of Midnight Express. 'I was overcome by love for Avril, but driven by a sense of obligation to Ahma. In succeeding for him, I was betraying her. I had no idea what would happen when we arrived, but Avril's apprehension was beginning to unsettle me...By the time we reached the outskirts of Bangalore, I was convinced I had made a dreadful mistake.' 192pp, paperback.