‘We ferried 500 men out’: how an organizer foiled one of America’s biggest human trafficking operations

In his thrilling book The Great Escape, Saket Soni tells the true story of a brutal labor camp in Mississippi

Few labor organizers tell stories as skillfully as Saket Soni.

Originally from New Delhi, Soni enrolled in the University of Chicago at 18 to learn how to write plays. I think my parents may have been the only ones in Indian history to let their son come to the United States to study theater," he says.