Acabou Book

A hair-raising account of imprisonment that reads like an African version of "Midnight Express." "Acabou: It's Finished" started as a journal Tim Green kept for himself during his imprisonment in Mozambique. Scribbled with the stub of a pencil in a children's notebook smuggled into the cell by his fellow inmates, the notes were intended as messages to his family should he not survive. This gripping story tells how Tim Green was working as a commercial pilot, flying communications equipment into Mozambique. On the last run of a business trip, he was paid for his work in American dollars, which he tried to exchange for local currency so that he could pay for a meal. Mozambican authorities alleged that the currency was counterfeit and he was imprisoned without trial for trying to ruin the economy. His harrowing account includes a description of how he was marched in front of a firing squad and almost put to death, and that in the end it was the efforts of his family and friends that saw him freed. As Tim Green writes, " This is my story of imprisonment in Mozambique. A story of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. A story of despair and rage. It is a frightening story. It is also a story of great feeling and compassion in deprived circumstances, kindness and sharing in brutal conditions. There but for the grace of God, go you. I wrote this for me, for my sanity and understanding of the things that happened to me. And then for the people that loved me. Long afterwards, I came to realize that my words and my story may have some relevance to others that have suffered and survived."Read More