The Damage Done

<p><i>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.</i><br><br> In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. <i>The Damage Done</i> 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 <i>khun deo</i> - solitary confinement, Thai style. <br><br> 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.</p>