In 1987, Pacepa wrote a book published in the United States by Regnery Gateway, "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". A Romanian translation of "Red Horizons" printed in the U.S. was infiltrated into Communist Romania, and a Mao-style pocketbook of "Red Horizons" was illegally printed in Communist Hungary (now a valuable collector’s item). In 1988, "Red Horizons" was serialized on Radio Free Europe, arousing "huge interest among Romanians". According to Radio Romania, "the streets of Romania's towns were empty" during the RFE serialization of "Red Horizons". On 25 December 1989, during the last part of the Romanian Revolution, Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena, were sentenced to death at the end of a trial where most of the accusations came almost word-for-word out of "Red Horizons" (a second edition, published in March 1990, contained the transcript of Ceauşescu's trial, which was based on facts presented in "Red Horizons").