A lone star book- I'm afraid
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Sorry to be so negative- but I really had to work hard to get through the early part of this book. It did pickup after that but by then I was thinking of tuning abck into radio One and ending my life.
Amazingly enough,I'm still here alive and well so the experience couldn't ahve been that depressing.
Author claims his ill-treatment in this Saudi nick was due to the authorities trying to cover upo the Islamists attacking of wetsrners out there. That might be true.
Anyway, glad he got out, but it would have been nice if he'd learnt to write before trying his hand in this sphere.
3 out of 10
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A great book
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A great book. It describes how Sampson kept his self-respect in an impossible situtation, under unbelievable brutality, in the end acheiving a genuine victory of spirit over his captors and torturers. It belongs on the same shelf as Evgenia Ginzburg's 'Into the Whirlwind' and Jacobo Timerman's 'Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number'.
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
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This is the most compelling book I have read in the last twenty years. The background to this story will be well know to any person who has followed the news on a daily basis. This book fills in the gaps in the life of a man detained by the House Of Saud for a crime that a British Court found him innocent. It is a journey of personal discovery through such difficult times, while in solitory confinement, any normal human being would find hard to imagine. This man has been to Hell and back knowing all the time he was innocent of a crime that todate no-one has been charged. This book will have your attention from the minute you open it and your deepest thoughts after you have finished it.
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Confessions of an innocent man
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This is the most compelling book I have read in recent years, its disturbing because of the details exposed in the torture chambers of Saudi Arabia which I once shared with Dr.Sampson.
Reading his book brough flashbacks of my darkest day's where death was preferable to living,and the innocent were ignored because the comercial needs of the western world outweighted the human rights abuses which are systematic in Saudi Arabia. The fact that the Saudi government almost killed the westerners in their endevor to hide the truth about islamic militants attacking westerners in Saudi,exposes how evil this regime is and how weak our own governments are when it comes to seeking justice and redress for its nationals
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