Gang of One

Imagine you're a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America's most notorious prisons. You've been told that if get into any trouble, your sentence will be doubled. You've just said goodbye to your lawyer. You're on your own. You are a "Gang of one". In the relentless heat of the desert, seven hundred men were crammed into a space meant for four hundred. Fights, murders and month-long lock-downs were commonplace. The guards - armed, untrained, on low wages - left the running of the jail to the gangs. "Gang of one" is an explosive prison memoir with the gritty realism of Midnight Express and the emotional force of The Shawshank Redemption.