Kidnappings. Extortion. Illegal imprisonment. What happens when things go bad abroad.
In Virgil Perryman's 35 years as a global project engineer, he has avoided a hotel bombing in Sudan, evaded an extortionist warlord in Mozambique, and fled a Tanzanian village that tried to detain him after a business disagreement.
But it took all of his resources to weather a false arrest during a 1981 power struggle in Papua New Guinea, where he was managing an energy development company. Perryman had paid locals above-market wages and encouraged them to open businesses, which he even helped to finance. All this contributed to civil unrest and bureaucratic retribution.
"I got thrown in jail—actually, it was more like a dungeon—for two weeks," Perryman says. "The group of expats and government officials who tried to take over falsely accused me of embezzling money from the energy company."
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