Michael Holly, Mechanical Engineer, Is In Moscow To Clinch A Deal For His Firm, And To Run A Small Errand For The British Intelligence Service. But He Is Arrested. The Soviet Secret Police Will Exchange Him For A Key Soviet Agent Being Held In London. Unfortunately The Agent Dies Prematurely, And Holly Gets Fifteen Years In A Desolate Labour Camp.Alone In A World Totally Alien To Him, Holly Refuses To Give In, Knowing That To Do So Would Be Death. He Fights Back, And Through The Hideous Weeks Of A Russian Winter The Camp S Inmates Take Their Courage From His Resistance And Join Him In Fighting The System. Michael Holly, The Quiet Englishman, Will Never Be The Same Again. Nor Will Camp 3.