For about 200 pages, the book then becomes a prison memoir.
For readers of American prison memoirs, it means getting a glimpse into a world they would never otherwise experience.
The prison memoirs of other activists told of similar experiences.
"After the Madness" presents itself as a prison memoir.
Soon after completing his prison memoir, Timerman and other journalists were taken to Lebanon to see the 1982 war up close.
Jones was later hired to adapt Anthony Papa's prison memoir 15 to Life.
Bahari wrote a prison memoir and family history, Then They Came for Me.
This book is a prison memoir.
He has also signed a contract with a New York publishing agent to write his prison memoir, another step the security forces insist will not be allowed.
"Soul on Ice," his groundbreaking 1967 prison memoir, was attracting enormous attention because of his confessions of rape.