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Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton

The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand's Deadliest Prison

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Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton

By: T. M. Hoy
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyes of an American locked up abroad.

Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner (farang) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short stories chronicling T. M. Hoy’s descent into the harrowing world of Southeast Asian prison life. Through his eyes, listeners will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of the chains he wears; the stomachaches from lack of food; witness the murders, drug overdoses, torture, and unbridled cruelty that ensues.

Sentenced to life in prison, Hoy does his best to accept the fate he’s been given. While attempting to "adjust" to this third-world hellhole, he contracts tuberculosis and nearly loses his life.

Hoy’s stories are brutal and his words are heart-wrenching. Go places you’ve only seen in your nightmares, to a world in which few survive, and none emerge unscathed...and if you’re lucky, you’ll die before you really begin to suffer.

©2012 T. M. Hoy (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Social Sciences

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The real-life account of an American serving time in a Thailand prison, Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton summons listeners to a gruesome realm of chronic hunger, unchecked violence, torture, degradation, and extortion. Performer Jim Frangione speaks with the resigned disquiet of an inmate struggling to come to grips with the cruelest confinement, his hushed baritone punctuated by shock and disgust as bizarre, often gruesome, prison rituals unfold routinely. T. M. Hoy's memoir, written in the hope he might bribe his way to freedom using its proceeds, is sure to inflame and excite listeners with its unnerving portrayal of a third world penal system.
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A series of vignettes detailing a 5 year stint in Thai prison. Consistently bleak, with occasional moments of humour. Hoy is a good writer, with a simple, unadorned style.

Not for the feint of heart. The human rights abuses detailed within are unsettling.

Bleak

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I didn’t find this that good, considering I have read and listened to many a prison story. If you want one of the best, check out The Cocaine Diaries, that would have to be an all time classic. This was good but it was odd in that there was no real story line and we never found out why he was in prison in the first place.

Standard South East Asian prison story

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A great collection of short stories about life in hell hole prisons in Thailand! Not the place you want to be locked up in at all! But we'll written and we'll narrated, I enjoyed listening to this audiobook.

Life in a hell hole prison

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I found the story to be quite interesting and easy to follow. I especially liked the narrator's calm and peaceful voice. Very pleasant to listen to.

Interesting story. Good narrator

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Don't like the narrator. Couldn't finish it because of monotony and expressionless reading.
Good story but found it boring.

No expression in the narrator

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