American Hostage, Micah Garen
American Hostage, Micah Garen
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American Hostage

Author: Micah Garen, Marie-Helene Carleton

Narrator: Micah Garen, Marie-Helene Carleton

Abridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2005


Synopsis

Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary with their Iraqi translator Amir Doshi. In the late summer of 2004, they began to wrap up their work, and Marie-Helene returned home while Micah remained for a final two weeks of filming. As Micah and Amir were filming in a Nasiriyah market, something went horribly wrong: Micah was unmasked as a foreigner and kidnapped by militants in southern Iraq.
Home in New York, Marie-Helene awoke to a gut-wrenching phone call from Micah's mother with word of his abduction. She promised Micah's mother the impossible -- that together they would bring Micah back alive.
American Hostage is the remarkable memoir of Micah Garen's harrowing abduction and survival in captivity, as well as the heroic and successful struggle of Marie-Helene; along with family and friends to win Micah's and Amir's release from their captors. The world watched and waited as Micah's drama unfolded, but the authors, now safely home and engaged to be married, detail the dramatic untold story.

About Micah Garen

Micah Garen and Marie-Helene are documentary filmmakers and photographers. They have written for The New York Times and Archaeology. They live in New York City.

About Marie-Helene Carleton

Micah Garen and Marie-Helene are documentary filmmakers and photographers. They have written for The New York Times and Archaeology. They live in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on March 22, 2024

3.5 stars, which I will round up to 4 stars. I picked up this book because I had read a few books about people taken hostage in foreign countries and every experience is different. I was interested in this book when I saw that it was an American Journalist. I want to say I really enjoyed this book bu......more

Goodreads review by Sue on February 13, 2022

Scary but true ordeal. Happy it had a good ending......more

Goodreads review by Becky on April 28, 2020

This audiobook kept me on the edge of my seat.......more