Author Archives: admin

The Cruelty of Kim Forced breeding, torture, starvation, rape, execution: This is what it’s like to be a political prisoner in North Korea.

Here’s the cover of the U.K. edition of “Escape from Camp 14,” which will be published by Mantle on March 29. Viking will publish on the same date in the United States. Publishers in Europe, Japan and Latin America will … Continue reading →

Publishers Weekly talked to Blaine for the November 21, 2011, edition of the magazine. Here  

“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14. No longer will you describe North Korea with sweeping but impersonal adjectives – repressive, brutal, authoritarian. Now you will know a specific kind … Continue reading →

From Publisher’s Weekly Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Blaine Harden. Viking, $26.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-670-02332-5 With a protagonist born into a life of backbreaking labor, cutthroat rivalries, and a … Continue reading →