Product Description

Powerful true story of a drug-addicted smuggler who found his salvation in the unlikeliest of places. Told with a shocking honesty, this true-to-life account of one man's hell takes the reader into the mind of an addict and shows just how low a man can fa

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10751 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Ham and Highgate Express
'an explosive book'

About the Author
After graduating from college, Terry Donaldson travelled the
globe and has been a tarot practitioner for over 30 years. He has written
several books on the subject and has hosted his own TV show. Following his
experiences he has become a counsellor and helps people overcome addiction
problems. He lives in London.

Excerpted from Hell in Barbados: The True Story of a Man Imprisoned in Paradise by Terence L. Donaldson. Copyright © 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
PROLOGUE

What springs to mind when you think of Barbados?
Is it the warm tropical climate, the golden sands, or the clear blue ocean?
Or is it the cool, laid back attitude and friendliness of the people? If
you were asked to think of a single word to describe the island, most
people would say the same thing: Paradise.
Over 500,000 people visit Barbados every year, and almost half of those are
from the UK and Ireland. Most come back
having enjoyed the holiday of a lifetime. Few, thankfully,
get to see the truth behind the postcard image of this place; fewer still
get to tell the tale. But those unlucky enough to fall foul of the law as I
did are left in no doubt-this is far from heaven.
Corruption, squalor, poverty, crime; they all raise their
ugly heads in this place, and though I deserved to be sent
to prison for a crime I should not have committed, nobody
deserves to have their human rights taken away, and nobody
should be forced to endure the horrors of that place where I spent more
than three years of my life.
Yes, I have made mistakes, and I have paid for them, but
I very nearly paid for them with my life, as I struggled to
overcome disease, violence, and a full-blown riot in a place where there is
one rule for the haves and another for the havenots, where conditions are
horrendous, and where there is no distinction between a murderer and a
pickpocket.
I have looked back over my life in an eff ort to understand
where and why I went wrong, and I have come to realise many
things about myself. Some things will remain unanswered
for me--there are some things I will never know--but one
thing I do know is that I never want to go back to prison, and I never want
to go back to Barbados.
You might consider it Paradise, but I consider it Hell.

Customer Reviews

no papaillon
The first 100 pages of how the author spiraled in the depths of Dantes inferno were quite interesting. After that it plateued out into everybody elses one or two line stories and tended to plod on.
The inhumane coditions he lived under are about right for those who peddle drugs and destroy lives- no sympathy here then!

Fiction and NOT FACTS
This is a really POOR description of the events that took place during the riot. The writer clearly puts in more fiction than any facts at all. I am disappointed that the writer could not give a more acurate description of the events that really took place seeing as he was there. I myself was there but in a different capacity. I was on of the many law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to try an bring order to a group of unruely CRIMINALS the writer included. I am not saying that the writer assisted in the violence but I am saying that he and the other persons who did the act have not come to the realisation that they were in prison and not in their own homes. Why should they commit acts which cause them to be incarcerated and still have all the luxuries as if they were at home. Prison is for punishment and it should be one in which they should never want to return, The write speaks of harsh treatment and rapes inside of the prison but let it be known that those who raped and who were raped were raped by their own. Prisoners were raping prisoners. He speaks of many killings but yet only one killing was reported in the two days of rioting and that was at the hands of another prisoner who stopped another from burning down other sections of the prison. The overseas detachment of soldiers who came to our assistance came after the rioting even though some small but yet viloent fights broke out at the detention centres and even during this time only one other death was recorded. The writer speaks of injustices how is this supported when the facts say different. In a time when prisoners were rioting like that I think that a lot of them should have lost their lives and just maybe the prison would not have burnt to the ground. This just goes to show the humanity that us officers show towards the CRIMINALS such as the writer. As long as you are committed of a crime then you are a CRIMINAL. This is a poor book and is mostly fiction and not facts. The price of the book isn't worth the paper it is printed on. The writer should be ashamed trying to push off this book as a true story and now trying to sell movie rights to this book. I wish that they were no stars to rate this book because it isn't worth the one I was obligated to give it.

Breath-taking trip through the underworld
definitely one of the best books I have read this year- read it on a plane trip, actually to Barbados, where much of the action takes place.
On the surface of it, you would never suspect that all these things are just bubbling away beneath the surface.......very much an eye-opener.....