Christopher V V Parnell

Author

Creative Writer

Motivational Speaker

CHRISTOPHER PARNELL - AUTHOR - HELL'S PRISONER & THE SUNDAY SMUGGLER

"The Sunday Smuggler" is published by HarperCollins Copyright 2002 is the same book that has been retitled and published as "Hell's Prisoner"UK, EU US version by Mainstream Publishers 2003. (NOW Penguin Random House)

The Sunday Smuggler is the original title, named because the handwritten diaries and photos were all smuggled out of the prison via the Sunday Church Service, by a true Christian Angel. The diaries and photos were personally posted back to Chris family, to be compiled and put together when he returned to Australia.

^{The shocking true
story of an innocent man, framed for drugs in Bali and jailed for over 11 years
in Indonesia's Most Notorious Prisons during the 80s. Christopher spent 5
months on Indonesia's infamous "Death Row" during the time Kevin
Barlow and Brian Chambers were sentenced to execution by hanging in Malaysia, It
was expected that Indonesia would follow Malaysia’s lead and execute the next
white foreigner that faced drug charges.}

^{Christopher recalls
that on Death Row in Indonesia, there was no Green Mile to look forward to…
Only a darkly stained and blotched grey cement floor led out into a dirt
compound where scruffy dishevelled Indonesian Soldiers lolled about waiting
with their rifles to form the firing squad that would take your life.}

^{The story of his
attempted escapes will inspire the imagination and touch your heart because
this is a real Australian’s story... from a land that was originally a
Penal Colony, a story to remind us, of the adventures of what our own
forefathers must have endured in an unknown savage frontier.}

^{Christopher narrates
a story of Courage and Cunning. His pure force and his in-suppressible will to live
and survive, within the Prisons, where every day, murder, torture and blood fights
were the norm. The guards turned a blind eye to the knives and other assorted
lethal weapons that the prisoners carried. Their eyes were constantly closed to
the endless murders and killings that were a daily occurrence.}

^{Christopher was
subsequently given a Presidential Pardon exonerating him of the crimes that he
was originally charged with, over a decade prior. But not before he
served over 11 years incarcerated within the walls of five of Indonesia's most
notorious prisons, and not before five escape attempts, two years on a Devil's
Island Punishment Prison and Leper Colony (Madura Island), and then finally
being stabbed five times, losing his left eye along with various other internal
organs.}

PUBLISHED BOOKS

The Sunday Smuggler

The shocking true story of an innocent man jailed for over 11 years in Indonesians Most Notorious Prisons.

Published by HarperCollins

(Australasian version)

Hell's Prisoner

The shocking true story of an innocent man jailed for over 11 years in Indonesians Most Notorious Prison.

Published by Mainstream Publishers

(UK European version)

Hell's Prisoner

The shocking true story of an innocent man jailed for over 11 years in Indonesians Most Notorious Prison.

Published by Random House Publishers

(UK European version)

You realize how delicately balanced life is …when a smile from someone can banish for a time the deepest sense of loss - Dec 1992

I have lived long enough in India and Indonesia not only to recognize the result of injustices… but also to live with them quite admirably. 1992-1993

Christopher Parnell