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A Prayer Before Dawn - My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons (Hardcover)
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A Prayer Before Dawn - My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons (Hardcover)
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Now a major motion picture The first time Billy Moore walked into
his cell packed with seventy prisoners, the floor resembled a mass
grave, with intertwined arms and legs, and the smell of human feces
was so strong he almost vomited. That night, he slept next to a
dead man. It wouldn't be the last time. Behind the walls of Klong
Prem "Bangkok Hilton" prison, life has no value. Overcrowded cells
are a breeding ground for HIV, TB, dengue fever, and hepatitis, and
the conditions are putrid and brutal. In an environment where
drugs, murder, rape, and corruption run rampant, Moore fights to
stay afloat above madness and his inner demons. A few years before,
Moore had traveled to Thailand to escape a life of heroin addiction
and alcoholism in England. In an attempt to stay straight, he
became a professional Muay Thai boxer, worked as an extra in Rambo
alongside Sylvester Stallone, and even fell in love. However, in
the poverty-stricken back streets of Chiang Mai, Moore's life
quickly descended back into chaos when he relapsed after trying ya
ba, the deadly crack cocaine of Southeast Asia. Moore was
imprisoned first in Chiang Mai Central Prison and later in Klong
Prem prison, a hellhole of filth and horror that very few will ever
experience and none would want to see again. As a "farang"
(foreigner), Moore struggles to survive the prison's atrocities by
making strategic friends, fighting in the prison's Muay Thai boxing
team, and even converting to Islam and praying five times a day.
However, what requires more stamina and grit than any of his boxing
matches is not just dealing with dangerous Thai criminals that lurk
behind prison walls, but also resisting his addictions in an
environment where drugs run plenty and wrestling with guilt. A
Prayer Before Dawn is no ordinary prison memoir; it's the story of
one man's survival amid inhumane circumstances and, most
importantly, his redemption in the most unlikely of places.
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