Name and Number: Based On a True Story Name and Number: Based On a True Story

Name and Number: Based On a True Story

    • 4.6 • 127 Ratings
    • £2.49
    • £2.49

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

Shooting Lower Scores

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2012
1 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
187
Pages
PUBLISHER
EPublishing Works
SIZE
1
MB

Customer Reviews

Unabashedly superior ,

Fiction

It's a good read, but I'd don't know why it's in the non-fiction section. In one of the first few pages it points out that it is complete fiction.

Though his other book on prison is a true story.

Mrs Basra ,

A quick read

Short and fairly entertaining - a bit of a shallow feel for me but a good quick read none the less.

JanineDillon ,

Name and Number

After reading Johns first book 'Inside', I was pleased to have found his second book.
From the moment I started reading Name and Number, I couldn't put the book down.
An insight to the truth behind the lies of what goes on behind bars and how an individual prisoner understands very quickly the importance of the truth kept aside for the survival of not only his family.
But for himself.

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