Nightmare Abroad: Stories of Americans Imprisoned in Foreign Lands

by Peter Laufer

Harrowing tales by Americans incarcerated in Peru, Pakistan, Thailand, Mexico, Turkey, and other foreign countries as told to the author, an international news correspondent.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Peter Laufer, Ph.D., is the author of more than a dozen books that deal with social and political issues, including "Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq," "Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border," and "Iron Curtain Rising: A Personal Journey through the Changing Landscape of Eastern Eurpoe." He is the coanchor of "The Peter Laufer Show" on radio station Green 960 in San Francisco. More about his books, documentary films, broadcasts, which have won the George Polk, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, and other awards, can be found at peterlaufer.com. He lives in Bodega Bay, California.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

An important if really scary book about what can happen when travel plans go bad - sometimes because you've done something very stupid (I'm looking at you, drug mules; but also anyone who chooses to go to either Russia or North Korea these days), and sometimes through no fault of your own other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A nice - and essential - companion to the far more upbeat The Adventure of Working Abroad: Hero Tales from the Global Frontier.

Praemonitus, praemunitus.