The heartwrenching "New York Times" bestseller about the only known person born
inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea's political prison
camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as
long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is
known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk. In "Escape From
Camp 14," Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive
totalitarian state through the story of Shin's shocking imprisonment and his
astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence--he saw his mother
as a competitor for food,