Book description
When Tig Hague kissed goodbye to his fiancee, Lucy, he was already
thinking of his return. The couple were going house-hunting, looking
for their first home together. Tig was only going to be gone a few
days on a routine business trip - the annual highlight of an otherwise
unglamorous job working on the Russian desk of a London bank.
But just hours later something went wrong at Moscow airport. Very wrong.
Misunderstanding a request from customs for a backhander to speed
his progress into the country, Tig was pulled to one side to have his
bag searched. No more than a deliberate inconvenience, he thought.
But Tig's world was about to implode with dizzying, terrifying
speed. A tiny lump of hashish, nothing more than detritus from a
recent stag weekend, was discovered in the pocket of an old pair of
jeans. Too small to warrant anything more than a slapped wrist back
home, he hadn't even known it was there.
Tig was in Moscow's Piat Centrale jail by nightfall - and that was
just a stepping stone on his way to a prison camp in Zone 22 of the
bleak, remote wastes of Mordova.
He wouldn't be returning home for years . . .
Zone 22 is the shocking story of a young Englishman's
struggle to survive the brutal, corrupt, almost medieval conditions of
a prison camp in Putin's Russia - a gripping contemporary story in the
tradition of Papillon and Midnight Express.
Tig Hague works in the City of London. He lives in Essex with his
wife, Lucy, and their young daughter.
