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Item specifics

Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
ISBN
9781785787027
Book Title
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : the Mission to Rescue the Hostages the World Forgot
Item Length
8.7 in
Publisher
Icon Books, The Limited
Publication Year
2021
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Colin Freeman
Genre
History, Social Science
Topic
Africa / General, Sociology / General
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Product Information

During the peak of the Somali piracy crisis, three ships - from Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan - were hijacked and then abandoned to their fate by their employers, who lacked the money to pay ransoms. All would still be there, were it not for Colonel John Steed, a retired British military attach , who launched his own private mission to free them. At 65, Colonel Steed was hardly an ideal saviour. With no experience in hostage negotiations and no money behind him, he had to raise the ransom cash from scratch, running the operation from his spare room and ferrying million-dollar ransom payments around in the boot of his car. Drawing on first-hand interviews, former chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph , Colin Freeman, who has himself spent time held hostage by Somali pirates, takes readers on an inside track into the world of hostage negotiation and one man's heroic rescue mission.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Icon Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1785787020
ISBN-13
9781785787027
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050402511

Product Key Features

Book Title
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : the Mission to Rescue the Hostages the World Forgot
Author
Colin Freeman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Africa / General, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.7 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv6433.786
Reviews
'A raw, gripping and profoundly moving book. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea tells the extraordinary story of Somalia's forgotten hostages, the pirates who tortured them for years, and the quietly heroic Britons who refused to give up on them.'
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
364.164
Dewey Edition
23

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