Run For Your Life
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets
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3.8 • 21 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets
What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British Embassy in Moscow, but ended up on the run with his wife and two children after leaking secrets from Vladimir Putin’s one-time deputy. Hiding off grid on Australia’s final frontier – remote beaches on the Dampier Peninsula on the far north Kimberley coast – the family faced crocodiles, sharks, snakes, raging bushfires and the devastating Cyclone Yvette, and survived only by catching fish and crabs and learning how to kill wild animals. It was a life-or-death move, but Nick felt he had no choice. Now, emerging from isolation, the family are finally ready to share their incredible story.
Customer Reviews
Run For Your Life
Continual hurdles told at a relentless pace. A family looking for any solution in a never ending struggle to stay together. Well told in a gritty, emotional manner. I ripped through it.
Great story of struggle and grit
Excellent book about the potential reach of rougue autocratic states and their total disregard for people in the way of their corruption and their criminality.
Also illustrates extrodinary ability to improvise and push forward in Nicks personal family, good luck to them all, they deserve everything life has to offer those who persist
Truth more intriguing than fiction
An incredible story of a family tested by dangerous humans, bureaucracy and nature. The strength of character of all members of this amazing family has been bought to life by a very skilled writer. Australia & New Zealand are lucky countries but as an Aussie I hope that we can become far more compassionate in the manner we treat refugees and especially see them as human individuals and treat them accordingly.
A great read in the realms of exceptional fiction except it is true.