CONTENTS: Preface; PART I THE PRISON INDUSTRY 1. Arrest 2. The History of Our Sewage Disposal System 3. The Interrogation 4. The Bluecaps 5. First Cell, First Love 6. That Spring 7. In the Engine Room 8. The Law as a Child 9. The Law Becomes a Man 10. The Law Matures 11. The Supreme Measure 12. Tyurzak; PART II PERPETUAL MOTION 1. The Ships of the Archipelago 2. The Ports of the Archipelago 3. The Slave Caravans 4. From Island to Island; Translator's Notes; Glossary: Names, Institutions and Terms; Index. EXCERPT: Author's Note: For years I have with reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my obligation to the dead. But now that State Security has seized the book anyway, I have no alternative but to publish it immediately. In this book there are no fictitious persons, nor fictitious events. People and places are named with their own names. If they are identified by initials instead of names, it is for personal considerations. If they are not named at all, it is only because human memory has failed to preserve their names. But it all took place just as it is here described.