Book description
Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when
someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident,
or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No
imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk.
In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin
trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage
Done 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. This is not his plea
for forgiveness, nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal
that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read:
heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down.
