Friday, October 24, 2008

Damage Done ~ Warren Fellows


Editors Synopsis:
In 1978, Warren Fellows, Paul Heyward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Australia and Thailand. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Thai prisons. This book is one man's story of an unthinkable nightmare.

Hayley's Review:
OK, so this is not a current book I have read, rather it was a couple of months ago.
I tend to read a lot of true stories although this one stands out and was refreshingly different in that the writer did not try to deny or sugar coat the charges against him. There was no question of his guilt throughout the book. We learn about the relationships of the accused and how Warren became involved in the drug scene before being thrown into the whirlpool of hard prison life that becomes his rock. The story was true to the blurb outlined on the cover and openly delves into the nightmarish hell of an Australian man serving time in a stereotypical Thai prison.
While the facts are brutal and unimaginable, encompassed within is a glimpse of the power and determination of the human spirit.

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