"""A remarkable story of a young man s loss of everything he deemed important, his imprisonment in a place that would terrify anyone, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society s most dreaded outcasts.""JOHN GRISHAM""A wonderfully bizarre and entertaining memoir of jailhouse redemption--by turns hilarious, astonishing and, when all is said and done, deeply moving.""JOHN BERENDT, AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVILNeil White was once was a man who lived by appearances he owned the most expensive cars and biggest house, and worked at the glossiest magazines. But his bank balance couldn t keep up with his lifestyle, so he started kiting - illegally depositing and drawing cheques between his two accounts. He got caught and was sent to prison. But not to just any prison he was taken to the one place on earth where appearances meant absolutely nothing: one of the last leper colonies in the world. The experience transformed him completely: the man who lived to impress became a man who could look beyond the surface of things in order to tap into the deeper, more important issues that run our lives: friendship, compassion, self-respect. Along the way he met some of the most unbelievable people on the planet, all of whom have their own poignant, painful, funny stories the last chronicles of a community that s now all but disappeared, but still