Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue

Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue
ISBN-10
1418584150
ISBN-13
9781418584153
Series
Buried Alive
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2012-10-08
Publisher
HarperChristian + ORM
Author
Roy Hallums

Description

A “vivid, absorbing, and chilling” true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq (Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent). AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums’ account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another American contractor is being held hostage. Hallums was the everyman behind that report—a fifty-six-year-old retired Naval commander working as a food supply contractor in Baghdad’s high-end Mansour District. His abduction was transacted in a matter of minutes, amidst a hail of gunfire and a handful of casualties. For the first few months of his captivity, Hallums endured beatings and psychological torture while being shuffled from one ramshackle safe house to another. From the four-foot-tall crawlspace where he carried out the bulk of his nearly year-long abduction, Hallums established a surprising degree of normalcy—a system of routines and timekeeping, along with an attention to the particulars that defined his horrific ordeal. His experience is recreated here, rich with harrowing specifics and surprising observations.

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