Left For Dead: How I Survived 71 Days Lost in a Desert Hell, he said he had in fact stopped for three men who had run out of petrol.
He said he had offered to give one of the men a lift to a petrol station and that he could have been drugged in his drink or even stabbed with a syringe during a struggle.
The book, which Ricky wrote with journalist Greg McLean, told how he felt "dazed and confused" before he blacked out completely.
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