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 & transported hundreds of miles to the remote forsaken wastes of Mordovia. & 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 & 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 Russias corrupt & labyrinthine legal system kept Tig sane
- & 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: Russias vast & unforgiving forgotten zone."