American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release - Hardcover

Garen, Micah; Carleton, Marie-Helene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743276604 ISBN 13: 9780743276603

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Synopsis

Traces the experiences of kidnapped documentary filmmaker Micah Garen, describing how his translator and he were constantly threatened with execution by their captors, and how his fiancée and her family worked for their release through a network of journalists and Middle East contacts. 175,000 first printing.

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From the Inside Flap:

"An astonishing read. What unfolds from the terrifying drama of Micah Garen’s kidnapping by Iraqi militants is a complete surprise: a moving, sympathetic portrait of Iraq and its people struggling against the chaos unleashed by the American liberation. American Hostage explores some of the darkest terrain in the human condition and emerges with hope still beating." -- Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill

From AudioFile:

This memoir concerns the ordeal of Micah Garen, a journalist who was in Iraq in the summer of 2004 filming a documentary with Carleton. Shortly after Carleton returned home, Garen was discovered to be a foreigner and taken hostage by militants. This is their ordeal-Garen's as a hostage and Carleton's as one of the people working to win his release. Alternating passages in this abridgment, the authors read their own stories, filled with the anxiety of the unknown and the determination to survive. Garen gives a somewhat stiff reading that, while not monotonous, is often lacking in energy. Carleton has more skill as a reader and exhibits more energy and verve. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743276604
• ISBN 13: 9780743276603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288