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St. Martin's Press
June 2011
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Featuring: Jere Van Dyk
288 pages
ISBN: 0312573421
EAN: 9780312573423
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and
three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of
Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping
to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But
then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the
crest of a hill. Captiveis Van Dyk's searing account of his
forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and
terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature.
The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from
the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust
nobodynot his jailers, not his guides (who he fears may have
betrayed him), and certainly not the charismatic Taliban
leader whose fleeting appearances carry the hope of
redemption as well as the prospect of immediate, violent
death. Van Dyk went to the tribal areas to investigate the
challenges facing America there. His story is of a deeper,
more personal challenge, an unforgettable tale of human
endurance.
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