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Freeman, Colin.
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Steed, John.
Hijacking of ships -- Somalia.
Hostage negotiations -- Somalia.
Ransom -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
Rescues.
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Freeman, Colin.
Steed, John.
Hijacking of ships -- Somalia.
Hostage negotiations -- Somalia.
Ransom -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
Rescues.
MARC Display
Between
the
devil
and the
deep
blue
sea
: the
mission
to
rescue
the
hostages
the
world
forgot
/ Colin Freeman.
by
Freeman, Colin.
Icon Books Ltd, 2021.
Call #:
364.164 F855b
Subjects
Steed, John.
Hijacking of ships -- Somalia.
Hostage negotiations -- Somalia.
Ransom -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
Rescues.
ISBN:
9781785787027 (hc)
Description:
xxvi, 293 p., 4 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (colour) ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"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 attache, 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
."--Publisher.
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