In the Time of Madness

In the last years of the 20th century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world.

For 32 years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now an era was coming to an end. Volcanoes erupted, currency lost its value, and on the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a war of headhunting and cannibalism. Would freedom prevail, or was the "time of madness" predicted centuries before now at hand? As Parry details here, trapped in the besieged United Nations compound, he finally reached his own breaking point.