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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's backpacking tours through some of the world's most dangerous regions, describing her work as a fledgling television reporter and her brutal fifteen-month incarceration in Somalia.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xvii, 307 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a firsthand account of the kidnapping of two American missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines, a yearlong ordeal that ended with the death of the author's husband, Martin Burnham.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of kidnapped documentary filmmaker Micah Garen, describing the constant threats of execution from his captors, and how his fiancee worked for his release through a network of journalists and Middle East contacts.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on years of interviews and previously undisclosed CIA files to chronicle the disappearance of CIA contractor Robert Levinson on a mission in Iran and the international manhunt to find him.