The paper studies on the surveillance, resistance and resilience in the selected major non-fictions of Blaine Harden with respect to Michel Foucault‟s theory of panopticism referred in his text Discipline and Punish (Foucault 1995). Though the hypothesis of panopticon has been extensively implied to prisons and digital surveillance, this research widens its implications to autocratic reigns, colonial dominance and violence, ecological supremacy as portrayed in the non-fictions of Blaine Harden. Through the analysis of Escape from Camp 14, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, King of Spies, Murder at the Mission, and A River Lost, the paper advocates that Harden‟s works build a visible structure of power that disciplines the subject from each novel into „docile bodies”. Nevertheless, these texts document resistance, defection, testimony, ecological awareness concurrently which interrupt panoptic sovereignty. With the aid of Foucault‟s Panoptic discourse analysis and postcolonial observation, this paper exhibits that Harden‟s non-fictions presents a unified voice of surveillance and resistance over various geopolitical and historical milieu. The study bestows the studies of surveillance, trauma, postcolonial literary criticism and totalitarianism by locating panopticism as a merging point for understanding contemporary writing.