THE LAST EXECUTIONER Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner

Softcover. Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates on Thailand's infamous death row. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, then a rock'n'roll star like Elvis, but his life changed when he joined Thailand's Prison Service. From there he took on one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing - but told with surprising humour and emotion - the book is the remarkable story of one man's experiences with life and death. Emotional and at times confronting, it grapples with the controversial topic of the death sentence and makes no easy reading. Not for the faint hearted with a look right behind the bars of the Bangkok Hilton and into death row. Illus. 296pp. softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.