he discusses this firsthand account with the transafrica forum. >> thank you so much for joining me here today. your book is the third book in a trilogy of books regarding zimbabwe. .. >> guest: i was sent to do a story about the end of the three-year rule, and it turned into something completely different. it turned into mugabe essentially declared war on his own people. and launched this campaign of torture on an industrial scale. and all foreign journalists and many observers were thrown out. a lot of the ngos were suspended or closed or that very. allow the opposition leadership fled the country. they were in danger, their lives were in danger. but i stayed for that period, and the fear is really a kind of summation of what happened in those very, very dark days. >> host: you are a zimbabwean, so in some ways a memoir of going back home, although one of her chapters says you can never go home again. but tell us a little bit about that. tell us about growing up in zimbabwe. clearly you are a white zimbabwean, and there's been a lot of talk around race relations in zimbabwe. and i thin

leader who refused to relinquish office and he discusses the account with the president of the transafrica forum, nicole lee. >> host: peter, thank you for joining me here today. your book, "the fear" is the third book in a trilogy of books regarding zimbabwe so i am just going to ask the most basic question. what is the fear? would you like the reader to know about the fear? >> guest: it is in a trilogy and in the sense it's an accidental book. i didn't visit to zimbabwe intending to write this book. it's based on reporting in 2008 and 2,009 and when i went there initially, there were elections in 2008 and the elections spun out robert mugabe's control and looked like he lost them and was about to have to stand down and so i was sent her to do a story about the end of the 30 year rule and it turned into something completely different. it turned into mugabe's essentially declared war on his own people and launched this campaign of torture on an industrial scale and all foreign journalists and many observers were thrown out. a lot of the ngos were suspended or closed for the period and a lo