Name and Number: Based On a True Story
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Publisher Description
Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence.
Nick hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true.
Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor, Nick lives at the mercy of the drug barons and in fear of the lifers. Constantly stalked by danger he has to find a way to survive.
To earn protection money he turns to the one thing he's good at—art. But can selling pictures to visitors be enough to keep the mob at bay? Or will he be made an example of by the hard men and suffer the worst type of prison punishment?
Based on the experiences of the author.
ABOUT JOHN HOSKISON:
In 1994, bestselling author John Hoskison broke a lifetime rule by drinking and driving and on his way home, he hit and killed a cyclist. As a non-violent first offender, he was told he would serve part of his sentence in an open prison, but was instead consigned to some of the toughest in Britain.
John was only able to survive his time in prison through the incredible forgiveness he received from the woman whom he'd made a widow and by the support of friends and family who knew his actions were so out of character.
Now John spends time speaking to young people at schools and through community out-reach programs, warning them about taking unnecessary risks and what prison is really like. If anyone is under the illusion that prison is a holiday camp, and that breaking the law just once is worth the risk, read this book.
OTHER TITLES by John Hoskison
INSIDE: One Man's Experience of Prison
A Golf Swing You Can Trust
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Customer Reviews
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I've read John Hoskison's book Inside so was really excited about his new book. It is an inspiring feel-good book with a great moral lesson. A must for all youngsters to read. The author is a humble intelligent man who truly relates to youth and writes with simplicity and passion.
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Again John has hit it out of the park with this real life drama. It is so intense and well written I felt like I was in prison with the character ,the fear the anxiety was just to real. It was thought provoking and I come away with a spence of hope. Johns real life experience reviled in his book INSIDE shows through and has given him an edge. Well done John.
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Another good book by John Hoskison, The strength of the contents are drawn from John,s own life as a prison inmate and the uniquely intimate understanding of prison life,this lets the author bring you inside and shock you with truth and horror of a boy,s adversity and triumph,a rarely told story of how easy life can go to an unexpected path ,so far removed from from the tv non scene we are fed on a daily basis.it is a blessing to follow an author in truth and understanding of a world of horror and terror we cannot understand .
In today's world of raising teen agers ,all parents and family members-should read this book it will serve as a beacon of hope and understanding,it will teach you how to find the path mearly by reading a fascinating story of life as it really is.
This book should be required school reading,believe me from the sixth grade onward educators will have a line up for this honest novel