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Impossible Odds : The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six by Erik Landemalm, Jessica Buchanan and Anthony Flacco (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six by Buchanan, Jessica, Landemalm, Erik, Flacco, Anthony [Paperback]

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A New York Times bestseller! In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Together the two moved from Nairobi to Somalia, and with hopes of starting a family, their future couldn't have been brighter. . . . But on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months, Jessica was terrorized by more than two dozen gangsters, held outdoors in filthy conditions, and kept on a starvation diet while her health steadily deteriorated. Negotiations for ransom dragged on, and as the ordeal stretched into its third month, the captors grew increasingly impatient. Every terrifying moment Jessica Buchanan spent suffering in captivity was matched by that of her adoring husband working behind the scenes to deal with her captors. After ninety-three days of fruitless negotiations, and with Jessica's medical state becoming a life-or-death issue, President Barack Obama ordered Navy SEAL Team Six to attempt a rescue operation. On January 25, 2012, just before the president delivered his State of the Union speech, the team of twenty-four SEALs, under the cover of darkness, attacked the heavily armed hostiles. They killed all nine with no harm to the hostages, who were quickly airlifted out on a military rescue helicopter. In riveting detail, this book chronicles Jessica and Erik's mutual journey during those torturous months. Together they relate the events prior to the kidnapping, the drama of Jessica's fight to stay alive, and Erik's efforts to bolster and support the hunt for her while he acted as liaison between their two families, the FBI, professional hostage negotiators, and the United States government. Both a testament to two people's courage and a nail-biting look at a life-or-death struggle, this is a harrowing and deeply personal story about their triumph over impossible odds.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1476725187
ISBN-13
9781476725185
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160159543

Product Key Features

Book Title
Impossible Odds : the Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by Seal Team Six
Author
Jessica Buchanan, Anthony Flacco, Erik Landemalm
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, Military / United States, Violence in Society, Emergency Management, Military
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
12.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv6604.S58b83 2013
Reviews
The book is spellbinding. Fiction cannot come close to the reality of Impossible Odds . The story provides a compelling combination of horror and fascination, written with clarity and compassion.
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-000485
Dewey Decimal
364.154092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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