Author: Hope White
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488060916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
They’re tracking a kidnapper. But will they be the next targets? After an ambush during a mountain hike, Zoe Pratt ends up shoved off the mountain and her friend kidnapped. Enigmatic search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe tracks Zoe with the help of his K-9 partner, Romeo, but as the only witness to the attack, she’s far from safe. With Jack’s help, can she find her friend and take down her would-be killer? Experience more action-packed mystery and suspense in the rest of the K-9 Mountain Guardians series: Trained to Defend by Christy Barritt Mountain Hostage by Hope White Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Mountain Hostage
Author: Hope White
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488060916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
They’re tracking a kidnapper. But will they be the next targets? After an ambush during a mountain hike, Zoe Pratt ends up shoved off the mountain and her friend kidnapped. Enigmatic search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe tracks Zoe with the help of his K-9 partner, Romeo, but as the only witness to the attack, she’s far from safe. With Jack’s help, can she find her friend and take down her would-be killer? Experience more action-packed mystery and suspense in the rest of the K-9 Mountain Guardians series: Trained to Defend by Christy Barritt Mountain Hostage by Hope White Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488060916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
They’re tracking a kidnapper. But will they be the next targets? After an ambush during a mountain hike, Zoe Pratt ends up shoved off the mountain and her friend kidnapped. Enigmatic search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe tracks Zoe with the help of his K-9 partner, Romeo, but as the only witness to the attack, she’s far from safe. With Jack’s help, can she find her friend and take down her would-be killer? Experience more action-packed mystery and suspense in the rest of the K-9 Mountain Guardians series: Trained to Defend by Christy Barritt Mountain Hostage by Hope White Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Hostage Terror
Author: Werner Wallert
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814346063
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Easter Sunday, 23 April 2000. Time: 19.50.A diver’s paradise in Malaysia turns in seconds into a tropical hell for the Wallert family. An extremist Islamic rebel group takes them hostage and they are transferred to the Philippine island of Jolo. The days, and then months, become a torture for the hostages as the carefully planned commando operation tries to extort political concessions and money from the Philippine government. Ten divers from Germany, France, South Africa, Lebanon and Finland, and eleven hotel employees and WWF rangers find themselves political chips of Philippine and international politics — and of the media —as the fate of the author, his wife Renate, his son Marc, their fellow captives and the heavily armed hostage-takers is followed day by day for weeks by journalists and the media. This true story tells the experiences of the hostages—what they lived through and suffered, and their hopes, anxieties and disappointments. Marc Wallert was the last member of the author’s family to be freed. The last chapters capture what life is like as a short-term-celebrity after the release.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814346063
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Easter Sunday, 23 April 2000. Time: 19.50.A diver’s paradise in Malaysia turns in seconds into a tropical hell for the Wallert family. An extremist Islamic rebel group takes them hostage and they are transferred to the Philippine island of Jolo. The days, and then months, become a torture for the hostages as the carefully planned commando operation tries to extort political concessions and money from the Philippine government. Ten divers from Germany, France, South Africa, Lebanon and Finland, and eleven hotel employees and WWF rangers find themselves political chips of Philippine and international politics — and of the media —as the fate of the author, his wife Renate, his son Marc, their fellow captives and the heavily armed hostage-takers is followed day by day for weeks by journalists and the media. This true story tells the experiences of the hostages—what they lived through and suffered, and their hopes, anxieties and disappointments. Marc Wallert was the last member of the author’s family to be freed. The last chapters capture what life is like as a short-term-celebrity after the release.
Over the Edge
Author: Greg Child
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594859604
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
* A different sort of true climbing adventure—this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47s * New afterword by the author * First time in paperback Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America’s best young rock climbers—Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason “Singer” Smith, and John Dickey—were asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan. At daybreak, they would be kidnapped at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan and is linked to Al Qaeda. The kidnappers, themselves barely out of their teens, intended to use their hostages as human shields and for ransom money as they moved across Kyrgyzstan. They hid the climbers by day and marched them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food, no clean water, and the constant threat of execution. The four climbers -- the oldest of them only 25 -- would see a fellow hostage, a Kyrgyz soldier, executed before their eyes. And in a remarkable life-and-death crucible over six terrifying days, they would be forced to choose between saving their own lives and committing an act none of them thought they ever could. In Over the Edge, the climbers reveal the complete story of their nightmarish ordeal to journalist and climber Greg Child. With riveting details, Child re-creates the entire hour-by-hour drama, from the first ricocheting bullets to the climatic decision that gains them their freedom. Set in a region rife with narcotics and terrorism, this is a compelling story about loyalty and the will to survive. What continues to make it relevant today, 15 years after the events took place, is the geopolitical context -- the incident happened, eerily, on the eve of 9–/11; the fact that at least two of the four climbers continue to be prominent in the sport; and the details incorporated into the story around the media hype and controversy regarding the climbers and their story.
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594859604
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
* A different sort of true climbing adventure—this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47s * New afterword by the author * First time in paperback Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America’s best young rock climbers—Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason “Singer” Smith, and John Dickey—were asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan. At daybreak, they would be kidnapped at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan and is linked to Al Qaeda. The kidnappers, themselves barely out of their teens, intended to use their hostages as human shields and for ransom money as they moved across Kyrgyzstan. They hid the climbers by day and marched them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food, no clean water, and the constant threat of execution. The four climbers -- the oldest of them only 25 -- would see a fellow hostage, a Kyrgyz soldier, executed before their eyes. And in a remarkable life-and-death crucible over six terrifying days, they would be forced to choose between saving their own lives and committing an act none of them thought they ever could. In Over the Edge, the climbers reveal the complete story of their nightmarish ordeal to journalist and climber Greg Child. With riveting details, Child re-creates the entire hour-by-hour drama, from the first ricocheting bullets to the climatic decision that gains them their freedom. Set in a region rife with narcotics and terrorism, this is a compelling story about loyalty and the will to survive. What continues to make it relevant today, 15 years after the events took place, is the geopolitical context -- the incident happened, eerily, on the eve of 9–/11; the fact that at least two of the four climbers continue to be prominent in the sport; and the details incorporated into the story around the media hype and controversy regarding the climbers and their story.
Willing Hostage
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786701100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Just when her life seems complicated by an unsatisfactory career and personal tragedy, model Leah Harper is taken hostage by a mysterious stranger and begins a dangerous trek across the Colorado Rockies
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786701100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Just when her life seems complicated by an unsatisfactory career and personal tragedy, model Leah Harper is taken hostage by a mysterious stranger and begins a dangerous trek across the Colorado Rockies
Hostage Zero
Author: John Gilstrap
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 078603226X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A mysterious kidnapping kicks off ”a roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists” in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he’s been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Grave plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power. And he must defeat enemies who are willing to kill to keep the truth from being revealed.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 078603226X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A mysterious kidnapping kicks off ”a roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists” in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he’s been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Grave plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power. And he must defeat enemies who are willing to kill to keep the truth from being revealed.
Hostage Nation
Author: Victoria Bruce
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had a drug-funded revolutionary army managed to hold so many hostages for so long? Had our costly War on Drugs failed completely? Hostage Nation answers these questions by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. It takes us behind the news stories to profile a young revolutionary in the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor determined to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who worked tirelessly to end the hostage crisis while the U.S. government disregarded his most important tool—negotiation. With unprecedented access to the FARC’s hidden camps, exceptional research, and lucid and keen insight, the authors have produced a revelatory work of current history.
Mountain Guardians: A K9 Collection
Author: Christy Barritt
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369702700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1069
Book Description
From USA Today bestselling author Christy Barritt, Hope White and Elizabeth Goddard come three exciting romantic suspense stories about K-9 Mountain Guardians on the trail of danger. Trained to Defend by Christy Barritt Falsely accused of killing her boss, Sarah Peterson has no choice but to rely on her ex-fiancé, police consultant Colton Hawk, and her boss’s loyal husky for protection. But can they clear her name before the real murderer manages to silence her for good? Mountain Hostage by Hope White After an ambush during a hike through the mountains, Zoe Pratt ends up injured and her friend kidnapped. Now Zoe’s a target…and relying on search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe and his K-9 partner is her only shot at survival. Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard When an escaped convict vows revenge on Deputy Sierra Young, former coworker turned PI Bryce Elliott is determined to protect her. But can Bryce, Sierra and her search-and-rescue K-9, Samson, track the fugitive before he succeeds in taking their lives? From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369702700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1069
Book Description
From USA Today bestselling author Christy Barritt, Hope White and Elizabeth Goddard come three exciting romantic suspense stories about K-9 Mountain Guardians on the trail of danger. Trained to Defend by Christy Barritt Falsely accused of killing her boss, Sarah Peterson has no choice but to rely on her ex-fiancé, police consultant Colton Hawk, and her boss’s loyal husky for protection. But can they clear her name before the real murderer manages to silence her for good? Mountain Hostage by Hope White After an ambush during a hike through the mountains, Zoe Pratt ends up injured and her friend kidnapped. Now Zoe’s a target…and relying on search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe and his K-9 partner is her only shot at survival. Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard When an escaped convict vows revenge on Deputy Sierra Young, former coworker turned PI Bryce Elliott is determined to protect her. But can Bryce, Sierra and her search-and-rescue K-9, Samson, track the fugitive before he succeeds in taking their lives? From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Hostage
Author: Skye Warren
Publisher: Skye Warren & Annika Martin
ISBN: 1944736050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
I never knew when he¿d come to me. Only that he would.
Publisher: Skye Warren & Annika Martin
ISBN: 1944736050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
I never knew when he¿d come to me. Only that he would.
Guests of the Ayatollah
Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly
Cold Zero
Author: Christopher Whitcomb
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780446799652
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
For the first time a member of the F.B.I.Us elite Hostage Rescue Team--its most highly trained and specialized squadron that handles large-scale emergencies in the U.S.--reveals his experiences, describing in breathtaking detail the brutal training, the weapons and tactics, and the dramatic showdowns that marked many of his missions, including Ruby Ridge and Waco.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780446799652
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
For the first time a member of the F.B.I.Us elite Hostage Rescue Team--its most highly trained and specialized squadron that handles large-scale emergencies in the U.S.--reveals his experiences, describing in breathtaking detail the brutal training, the weapons and tactics, and the dramatic showdowns that marked many of his missions, including Ruby Ridge and Waco.