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Relates the personal experiences of the author and 227 other political prisoners of the Soviet Union.

British citizen Alexander Bayliss, having spent most of his life in a Soviet prison after being arrested by the KGB and erroneously charged with espionage, is freed in the 1970s and decides to stay in Russia where he becomes a beloved schoolteacher whose identity remains a secret until the end of Communism brings the truth to light.

Presents true and inspiring accounts of political prisoners that every informed citizen of our world should know.

Taken captive in the middle of a conspiracy of international proportions, wealthy socialite Jane Hamilton Greer finds hope in government agent Grant Sullivan, who finds his mission complicated by his feelings for Jane.

A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation

“One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times).

Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array...

Brianna Whitman's job is to reacclimate Sheikh Riyaz al Hadid to palace life and prepare him for his long-arranged marriage after years of him being held as a political prisoner. But the forbidden attraction that flames between them makes her want to cast her innocence to the desert winds.

"A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials-a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence-perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe...

Recounts the real-life experiences of London-based, Tehran-born journalist Maziar Bahari when he returns to Iran to cover the 2009 presidential elections and is detained as a spy and tortured by an interrogator Bahari identified as Rosewater.

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea. --From Worldcat.org.

England's Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for generations of English political prisoners. Across the years, four young royals shared the same small rooms in their dark prison, as all four shared the unfortunate role of being perceived as threats to the reigning monarch; Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Jane's younger sister, Kate Plantagenet, an English princess who lived nearly a century before her, and Edward and Richard, the boy princes imprisoned...