Desert Hostage
Author: Diane Dunaway
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780584311662
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Author: Diane Dunaway
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780584311662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sara Wood
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Published: 2015-02-25
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 4596682623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTiffany didn’t want more drama in her life, but unfortunately it still came for her. Just as her company was on the verge of going under, a man named Hassan visited, asking her to do a job that just might save it. Hassan being the commander in chief of the Sharif Empire, Tiffany’s boss was more than willing to accept the job. The way Hassan glowers at Tiffany, she is instantly reminded of her late husband. Hassan turns out to be her brother-in-law, come looking for her and more specifically her son. Tiffany’s son is the heir to the Sharif Empire, and as such Hassan wants to take him to his homeland to learn about his country. He offers to take Tiffany, too. Remembering how awful her husband was, she assumes Hassan can be no better. Just what are Hassan’s true intentions for her and her son?
Author: Michael Scott Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 006296867X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival. In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues. A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
Author: James H. Kyle
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780345446954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the highest-ranking officers on the ground in Iran reveals the untold story of the Iran hostage rescue mission that took place in 1980. In this riveting account, Col. Kyle takes readers from the initial brainstorming sessions and training camps to desert rehearsals to the desert refueling site where he decided to abort. (May)
Author: Miranda North
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 1989-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780821726648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Justin Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1472837800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. The raid, Operation Eagle Claw, was risky to say the least. US forces would have to fly into the deserts of Iran on C-130s; marry up with carrier-based RH-53D helicopters; fly to hide sites near Tehran; approach the Embassy via trucks; seize the Embassy and rescue the hostages; board the helicopters descending on Tehran; fly to an airbase captured by more US forces; and then fly out on C-141s and to freedom. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly given the complexity of the mission, things went wrong from the start and when the mission was called off at the refueling site at Desert One, the resulting collision between aircraft killed eight US personnel. This title tells the full story of this tragic operation, supported by maps, photographs, and specially-commissioned bird's-eye-views and battlescenes which reveal the complexity and scale of the proposed rescue and the disaster which followed.
Author: Linda Conrad
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0373277318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodyguard Sheik by Linda Conrad Expert marksman Morgan Bell is one of the best in the world. She agreed to one last assignment, never expecting to find sexy Sheik Karin Kadir heating up the cold desert nights. It leaves her longing for more... much more than his protecting her life. Sheik's Captive by Loreth Anne White Kathleen Flaherty's desert search for her sister leads her into captivity by a terrorist cell. Her beauty doesn't go unnoticed by her captor, Sayeed Ali. Working undercover for the FBI, Sayeed never counted on discovering love in a land as wild and as untamed as his captive's heart. Will he be able to save her and her sister in time?
Author: Jana Bommersbach
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1429944277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLoretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream...until one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades, Taw Benderly worked his way into Loretta's heart, home, and business. Though the couple appeared to be happy, their lives behind closed doors told another story. Terri had always known that the handsome, charming, and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her mother—but she did not know the extent of the abuse or how far he would go to defraud her. Then, just before Christmas in 2004, Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned the shocking truth: That, before killing himself, Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta and left her. Bones in the Desert is the shocking story of a devoted mother and daughter, a successful business, and the man who would do everything to destroy it all ...
Author: Edith Blais
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781771649094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of Edith Blais's 450 days of captivity in the Sahara Desert at the hands of terrorists--and her stunning escape to freedom. In January 2019, news outlets reported that a young Canadian woman and her Italian companion were presumed kidnapped while traveling in Africa's Sahel region, a haven for jihadist groups. Little was known about the pair's fate until they reappeared in Mali fifteen months later, having apparently escaped their captors. Now, in The Weight of Sand, Edith Blais tells the harrowing story of her 450 days of captivity in the Sahara and her courageous escape. In striking, sensitive prose, she recounts the prolonged terror of her months as a hostage, enduring violent sandstorms, grueling hunger strikes, extreme isolation, and the unpredictability of her captors. The book also includes luminous poems Edith wrote in secret, which became a lifeline of creativity and one of the few possessions she smuggled out in her escape. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sandis ultimately a life-affirming book--a celebration of resilience by a woman who refused to have her humanity stripped away.
Author: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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