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"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".

From the Inside Flap:
When Tig Hague kissed goodbye to his girlfriend 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. 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 notorious Piet Centrale jail by nightfall - and that was just a stepping stone on his way to prison camp Zone 22 in the bleak, remote wastes of Mordovia.

He wouldn't be returning home for years ...
Zone 22 is the shocking story of a young Englishman 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.

From the Back Cover:
A light bulb hangs from the ceiling, casting a dim light over the filth on the floor and the walls. The walls are covered with graffiti and smeared with stains. I stand there retching and swallowing back the bile from my cramping stomach. I am naked and quivering with cold and fear.

About the Author:
Tig Hague works in the City of London. He lives with his partner Lucy and their young daughter in London

Average Rating:

Rating: - If in doubt, bribe
Tig Hague's account of his arrest at Sheremetyevo, remand in Moscow, trial and time spent in a Mordovian prison camp is a vivid description of two shockingly different worlds clashing - that of a naive Western European on a business trip and the harshness and brutality of life on the wrong side of the Russian justice system.

Hague was desperately unlucky to be there - he had overlooked the fact that there was a small amount of hashish in his jeans. Then he failed to understand that the corrupt official at the airport wanted a bribe, leading to a search of his clothes, leading to a conviction for drug smuggling and two years of misery and terror.

Zone 22 makes for very compelling reading. The stories are so horrifying ... Read More:

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Rating: - ''Did you pack your case yourself, sir?''
I bet he wishes that he had now.
The extract taken from 'The Guardian's' review, couldn't sum this book up more.
I found the most ironic part of the book (apart from the vietnamese moaning like a dog, while sleeping, after eating one), was that it should have only been a small chapter in his life. What should have been a small bribe (in the form of a few cigarettes) to the first individual that asked for a bribe, in Russia. Turned out to be half a years production of the 'Marlboro' factory, and a select few pages from the 'Argos' catalogue, being handed to the employees of the Russian prision system, in order to try and get somewhere, but in fact not getting really anywhere. As he found out himself. 100 Marlboro's for 1/4" of a window ... Read More:

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Rating: - simply outstanding.
When Tig Hague describes the prison in the Russian capital and his treatment of the justice system you think it can't get any worse until his arrival at Zone 22. Tig Hague brings the reader on a journey that is outstanding to read and teaches us all how family is so important.This is the modern day "Great Escape" without the tunnels or the bike. Buy it and enjoy it " simply outstanding ".

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Rating: - How does one cope?
An honest and scary true story of one mans life that turns upside down and spirals out of his control. One silly mistake leads to a challange of self control and survial. An interesting read that evokes sympathy and interests the reader through out. I hope Tig is drinking lemonade from these big lemons he was dealt a few years back.
A fantastic purchase!!

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Rating: - absolutly fantastic
this book is brilliant, it takes you through the high's and low's of tig in the russian prison system, this book is a definate read and i recomend it to everyone probably the best book iv ever bought.