Bearing the Cross - BOOK FIVE - Casablanca (part 2)

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Book Five of Dr. John M. Cobin's Bearing the Cross memoir series brings the account to its conclusion in Casablanca, the second half of the author's imprisonment, closing out a five-volume record of a foreign political prisoner's passage through the Chilean penal system. Cobin, an economist writing from direct experience, documents release, aftermath, and the reckoning with faith and endurance that followed years of confinement, while continuing to weigh Chilean institutions, due process, and the treatment of a foreign detainee against his Christian convictions. Readers of prison memoir, religious autobiography, and true accounts of perseverance under authoritarian systems will find the series' concluding record of events, people, and consequences. Themes include religious liberty, the rule of law, family endurance across a prolonged separation, and the limits of state power over the individual conscience. Suitable for church reading groups, students of Latin American politics and criminal justice, and general readers who have followed the series from Book One. This volume concludes the five-book series.