Some told harrowing tales of escaping to safety.
Now that John McAfee is back stateside, the software company founder has retreated from blogging tales of escaping Belize and begun offering tidbits of life advice.
Each stage segues seamlessly into the next, creating a lengthy and charming tale of escape, with enough hidden treasures toensure replay appeal.
Basically what we have here is a tale of escape and growth that begins in darkness and — after taking a few tips from the Bible, Hieronymus Bosch and M. C. Escher — ends in a stunning vortex of brilliant color.
Finally, there's my book of the year by some distance, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (Little Brown £14.99), a tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south.
Emerging from 17 days in the jungle after fleeing from guerrillas, Jhon Frank Pinchao, a police officer, stunned Colombians with his tale of escape after more than eight years in captivity.
At a more ambitious level, Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" had a kind of vigorous gentleness — a tale of escape and survival in a magic place (a New England island), presided over by a factual angel (Bob Balaban), dispensing necessary geological and meteorological data, and unified by Benjamin Britten's music, which sealed the primacy of children in their wily innocence.
While on the run, he provided frequent updates on his bizarre tale of escape to members of the media and on his blog whoismcafee.com, where some posts, including one suggesting his double was caught at the border with a North Korean passport, have been deleted.
It was an extraordinary tale of escape.
Lampert weaves the DNA of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner with a splash of classic Terminator into the bearded rapper's tale of escape from a sinister organization of face-stealing robots.
