At Your Own Risk: An American Chronicle Of Crisis And Captivity In The Middle East (FINE COPY OF UNCOMMON FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, TOM AND JEAN SUTHERLAND)

Fine/Fine. First American Edition, Second Printing not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, TOM AND JEAN SUTHERLAND. Inscription reads, 'Oct. 8, 1999/To ------- -/Our Beirut Story for/you with our love and/best wishes - a pleasure/to meet you at CLA!/Tom and Jean Sutherland'. Illustrated with photographs and maps. In 1983 Tom Sutherland (1931-2016) , a professor at Colorado State University, accepted the position of Dean of Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science Science at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Two years later, on June 9, 1985, he was kidnapped by gunmen from the Islamic Jihad. That day would be the first of 2,354-nearly six and a half years of captivity-the second longest of any western hostage in Lebanon. With Appendixes and Index. A fine copy, in a fine d/w, of an UNCOMMON first American edition, second printing SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, TOM AND JEAN SUTHERLAND. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.