Product Description

In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport. Within hours he was accused of a major crime. Next, he was tried and transported hundreds of miles to the remote, forsaken wastes of Mordovia.And prison camp Zone 22. Sentenced to spend the next four years there, every day was a struggle against disease, freezing temperatures, malnutrition, the unpredictable, sometimes terrifying behaviour of the camp guards and his fellow prisoners.But, most of all, it was a fight to ensure his own psychological survival. Only the thought of his girlfriend Lucy, fighting Russia’s corrupt and labyrinthine legal system, kept Tig sane – and gave him a reason to see each day to its end. The English Prisoner is an extraordinary story of endurance, as one man – plucked from his normal, everyday life – is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia’s vast and unforgiving ‘forgotten zone’.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #188205 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

About the Author
Tig Hague works in the City of London. He lives in Essex with his wife, Lucy, and their young daughter.

Customer Reviews

Under read
I am quite surprised how little publicity this book received. I uncovered this book in a second hand book shop in Australia and I have to say it was an intriguing read. It is by no means a literary great but Hague conveys his suffering and frustration with an excellent choice and use of language, one that keeps the pages turning. When reading it I found myself getting annoyed at his situation and really feeling for him. Definitely worth a read.

Midnight Express for the 21st Century
You just can't believe this sort of thing happens in this day and age. A normal guy busted with a tiny amount of hash on him gets sent to a medievel Russian prison camp which, when described by the Author, is not too far advanced from when Stalin was running the show decades ago. Fair play to you Tig, you survived it and have written a brilliant account. A lesson to us all. Never take your cosy home life for granted...