The Damage Done - Warren Fellows

I've just returned from my holiday in Rhodes, which by the way was lovely and hot, and I had taken this book with me to read. It was my first time flying, and my first time abroad, so I had no idea what to expect from the flight, and with it being 4 hours long, this book kept me company for the whole flight and ended up only having one chapter left after 4 hours! THE BOOK ------ This story is written by Australian Warren Fellows who was caught drug trafficking between Thailand and Australia in 1978. He has decided to write this book to put into words his time in (at the time) the worst prison in the world, Bang Kwang, also known as the Bangkok ...  Read the complete review

The Damage Done is the real life story of a young Australian guy called Warren Fellows who gets convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia in 1978 at the age of 25 and goes on to spend the next 12 years of his life in the most horrendous of Bangkok prisons. The story is written and told by Warren Fellows himself who from the very beginning makes no excuses for his actions which led him to his conviction and makes very clear from the start that he is not writing the book out of self-pity and seeking sympathy. He knew that what he had done was wrong and regretted it but he just wanted to tell his story, explaining in full details the ...  Read the complete review

Warren Fellows had a good family background, his father won the Melbourne Cup (horse racing) in 1949. Up to the age of 21 he had lived a fairly typical life in Australia. At that point he got involved with a group of people who would introduce him into the fraught filled world of drug trafficking. Fellows proved to be a dab hand at acting cool under pressure which inevitably led him to be put in contact with a bigger drug lord named Neddy Smith. Smith had major trafficking operations set up in Thailand where the procurement of cheap heroin proved to be a somewhat facile task. By smuggling the drug to Australia there were astronomical profits to be ...  Read the complete review

The Damage Done certainly isn't the type of book I would have usually read, however I fancied a change and after reading a few reviews I was intrigued. This book is written by Warren Fellows who was caught drug trafficking, and was sent to Bang Kwang which was at the time, the worst prison in the world. At the start of reading this book, I just kept thinking, 'well, you shouldn't have smuggled heroin then." However Fellows does not ask for people's forgiveness for what he did, he admits he was wrong, but just wants to tell his story from his life in this awful prison. As his story goes on you realise no one should have to go through what ...  Read the complete review

When I bought this book I didn't really know how I would feel about Warren Fellows. As a person who is strongly against illegal drugs, I didn't know why I would want to read the story of a drug trafficker. Yet I was really interested, and wanted to know more. This book gives such a well-written insight into Thai prisons, and I soon realised that what Warren Fellows experienced during his 12 years, was something many people would not live to see the end of. It is hard to describe this book. The only word I can think of is harrowing. It is not a book to read for pleasure. Yet it is hard to put down, from reading more and more, it is hard to believe that one man could ...  Read the complete review