Welcome to Hell
One man's fight for life inside the Bangkok Hilton

by Colin Martin

Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an innocent man's struggle to survive inside one of the world's most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Martin was let down by, in his opinion, a hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, accidentally stabbed and killed that man's bodyguard

Martin was arrested, brutally tortured by the Thai Tourist Police, denied a fair trial, convicted of murder and thrown into prison—where he remained for 8 years.

Honest and often disturbing—but told with a surprising humour—Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Martin was denied justice again and again. In this extraordinary account he describes the swindle, his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial, and the 8 years of brutality and squalor he was forced to endure

 
Pub Date: Jan 2006 | Price: S$23.50 | Paperback (B format) 240pp + photos
True Crime | ISBN: 978-981-05-4978-7 | Territory: SG, MY (English langauge)
     
Colin Martin was recently released from eight years behind bars in Thailand's most notorious prison. He is enjoying getting reacquainted with his children from his first marriage while bringing to Ireland his son from his second marriage with a Thai lady, who is trying to sell the child back to him.
“Absolutely stunning”
–The Star

“Reads like an unputdownable work of fiction.”
–Metro

“A fascinating read, horrifying and entertaining in equal measure”
–Liverpool Echo

“Each inflection is narrated with such raw intensity to make you flinch. It feels a little sadistic to be soaking up the degrading details but frankly you'll also go away feeling that your life could never hit rock bottom again, no matter what.”
–Her World