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Paperback edition of this far-reaching memoir based on Bizot's experiences in the 'killing fields' of Cambodia. Foreword by John le Carre. "Compelling - at once beautiful, startling, gentle and nerve-wracking" "Daily Telegraph

In 1999, the media reported the arrest of Duch, a.k.a. the Butcher of Tuol Sleng--the most notorious torturer and executioner of the Cambodian genocide. Duch's unexpected arrest after years in hiding presented Bizot with his first opportunity to confront the man who'd held him captive for three months in 1973 and to survive imprisonment from the Khmer Rouge.

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In the tradition of Gitta Sereny, who sat with Speer in the Nuremberg trials, Bizot attended Duch's court case and spent time with him in prison, trying to unearth whatever humanity Duch had left.

In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety across the Thai border. Out of those ordeals comes this tran...