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Welcome to Hell | 
| Author: Colin Martin
Publisher: Maverick House
Category: Book
Buy New: $9.41
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1169747
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 231
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0954870778
EAN: 9780954870775
ASIN: 0954870778
Publication Date: January 2005
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Product Description
Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, 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, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally killed that man's bodyguard. Colin was arrested, 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 Colin was denied justice again and again.
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 Superficial and not convincing......... March 19, 2008
Like most of your "Bangkok Hilton" books (and there are many) this one seems a little exaggerated and at times unbelievable due to the sensationalism that surounds this type of story. Thailand is notorious for there sub-standard prisons and I truly do feel bad for Mr. Martin who spent 8 years in one but if the "Hilton" (name given to any Thai prison that a foreigner is sentenced to) that he was sent to was as bad as he claims then why didn't he allow himself to be transfered back to Ireland after 4 years which was an option. On page 210 the author states that "I could have asked the Thai government to tranfer me back home to Ireland after I'd served 4 years but I had decided to stay and fight my case in the belief that I could eventually win." Hmm, eventually win? after all the hype about the corruption of the prosecutor, judge, and his own defense lawyers that Mr. Martin tirelessly repeats throughout his story, it almost seems like a contradiction.
After finishing this book I felt like there were pieces of a puzzle missing. The author states that he accidently killed the con mans bodyguard yet the cause of this mans death was do to being stabbed repeatedly. Is this another conspiracy fabricated by the Thai authorities against Mr. Martin? Did his first wife leave him because he had "lost everything" or is there more to this? The author lived in Thailand for 3 years waiting to seek revenge on the people that conned him yet he gives the reader little insight as to what he was doing during those 3 years except that he was working as a welder and married a women who he claims did not love him and only married him for his money. According to the author young Thai women only marry older men for there money.
The author voices his utter contempt for not only the Thai "system" but for Thais in general making himself sound rather narrow and ignorant which gave his story less credibility to this reader not to mention the inacurate explanations surounding some Thai customs that the author attempted to convey.
So was Mr. Martin an unfortunate victim who was "screwed" by everyone? Was he simply a poor judge of character? or is he just a person (like many people in this world) who absolutely refuses to take any responsibility for his actions? Maybe a little of each?
 Compulsive reading January 31, 2008
I read this book in a little under a day. It is a terrifying true story of a decent business-man who had answered an advertisement in a newspaper and through a series of events, had been swindled of almost half a million dollars in Thailand by a business deal that turned out to be an elaborate con.
In an effort to try and apprehend the man responsible, he finds himself in the wrong side of the law and facing life in a squalid Bangkok prison cell.
This is a well written, fast paced book that gets to the core of the story without over-embellishing the details. Some of the descriptions of abuse and torture were quite graphic, but were necessary to relay the experience the author had been through.
The sense of injustice is overwhelming and you feel pity when reading all the twists and turns and misfortune that happen along the way. An interesting read.
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