Alan Thornhill

"Tread Softly Stranger" Alan Thornhill

This book charts the rise and fall of one of the world''s top Life Assurance salesmen. Traumatic personal circumstances rendered him vulnerable to the advances of two corrupt senior VAT officials. The resultant massive VAT scam would see him pursued by Interpol, finally caught and locked up inside the notorious Pollsmoor prison in South Africa. After surviving early attacks on his life, he would overcome many other threats, including hunger and disease and emerge as an influential, central figure in the prison. Brutal warder attacks, near prison riots and daily prisoner killings, are all compelling ingredients of a book, which for the first time, exposes what really goes on, inside one of the world''s most terrifying prisons.