Exit Banned: An American Executive Held Hostage for 69 Days in China

He never boarded.

And China would not let him leave.

In March 2010, American executive Morris Huntly arrived at Shanghai’s airport expecting a short flight home to Hong Kong. Instead, he vanished into a legal and political black hole. Huntly was caught in China’s opaque system of “exit bans,” where foreigners are held as human leverage in business disputes they don’t control.

Exit Banned is Huntly’s harrowing true account of sixty-nine days trapped inside a r...