When convinced the secret police were going to arrange an "accident" to kill his friend, missionary Milo Thornberry decided he had no choice but to help well-known human rights leader Peng Ming-min escape from Taiwan. Years later Thornberry and his wife return to Taiwan only to be arrested as terrorists by the officials in Taiwan and subsequently blacklisted by the U.S. State Department. It was not until 2003 that Thornberry was recognized as a human rights activist by the newly democratic Taiwan and it was 2009 before both Thornberry and Peng discover the reason for an arrest that happened thirty eight years ago.
