Scars The World Can’t See winner of the Switzerland First Prize Literary Award. The skillful author takes us on his life journey, revisiting moments and past adventures in 150 countries, some of which represent the most troubled places on earth, where life (or an acceptable version of it) is a privilege not many can afford. We are thrown into areas where profit, oppression, abandonment, violence, criminality of all sorts, ruling corruption and twisted war-games causing destruction and hopelessness reign; slipping into war-zones battling against injustice, white supremacy or Muslim fanaticism, aberrations of similar magnitude. Witnessing children exploitation, unjustified mass murdering, illegal trafficking, sexual abuses of unnamable extent.
Through the vivid recounting of his experiences nonetheless we also follow his many career achievements in diverse successful directions. Ultimately, we feel fascinated by his vision and life amazing rollercoaster, underpinning a bitter taste for the ugly truths revealed difficult to swallow. What the author has done in terms of humanitarian commitment is undoubtedly remarkable, calling for more action against the dismal aberrations of a world led astray by the human evil.