A Prayer Before Dawn cover art

A Prayer Before Dawn

A Nightmare in Thailand

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

A Prayer Before Dawn

By: Billy Moore
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST. Cancel monthly.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £8.99

Buy Now for £8.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A Prayer Before Dawn is the true story of one man's fight to survive inside Klong Prem prison, the notorious Bangkok Hilton. Billy Moore traveled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism. He managed to overcome his inner demons for a time but relapsed after trying ya ba, a highly addictive form of methamphetamine. Moore's life quickly descended into chaos, drug dealing, and violence until he was eventually arrested and imprisoned in Klong Prem, a place where life has no value.

A Prayer Before Dawn is no ordinary prison memoir; it's the story of one man's struggle to survive in one of the world's toughest prisons. It's also a story of redemption in the most unlikely of places.

©2014 Billy Moore (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. True Crime Scary Thought-Provoking Inspiring Survival

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Fighting for My Life cover art
Midnight Express cover art
34 Years in Hell cover art
High: My Prison Journey as One of the Infamous Peru Two cover art
Deep Cover cover art
Cocky cover art
King of the Gypsies cover art
The Boy in the Cellar cover art
Putin's Prisoner cover art
The Bitter Taste of Dying cover art
The Five Families of New York cover art
Ghetto Bastard cover art
Killing Goldfinger cover art
The Damage Done cover art
Our Story cover art
The Kite Runner cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
loved every minute of it, it was riviting from beginning to end. definitely on my recommend list.

fascinating story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Listened to it all in one day . Harrowing & upsetting to hear what happened to some prisoners but really good & so funny at times too I laughed out loud in supermarkets shopping listening to you with earbuds in 🤣. Glad your out , what a total nightmare you’ve been through & good luck for the future 👍🏼

Harrowing But Good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Interesting insight into the despair and resilience and survival instinct - to stay alive by making connections

The reader brought the story to life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
when he described himself in Liverpool I thought he was a scumbag but you warm to him though the book.
It was really interesting with lots of strange characters and quite disturbing in parts and I sad to reach the final chapter.
Mr Moore brought it all on himself but I hope he's well now and has found peace.

Enjoyable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
absolutely loved this book and the story is captivating and insightful and the life that this man went through was very interesting

Great story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
narrator ruined the story with terrible accent. Billy has had enough misfortune because unless he was part way through converting to a ladyboy who hailed from the Black Country the narrators accent which is supposed to be Scouse is a proper joke.

good story terrible narrator.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator of this story was absolutely fantastic and the voices that he used were amazing. I wish he had red Billie’s other book.

Voice

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
easily the best book I've ever listened to what a story, I wish Billy all the best for the future

simply amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wow what an eye opener English prisons are really a holiday camp compared to this hell

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Finished this really quickly. It's interesting enough to manage to allow you to get best the poor narrator and those terrible accents. Still rated as worth the purchase despite this

Very good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews