The tightening dark : an American hostage in Yemen / Sam Farran and Benjamin Buchholz.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780306922718
- 0306922711
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | FARRAN, S. F241 | Available | 33111010750087 |
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This riveting memoir follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and thirty-year US Marine veteran who suffered a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen--and remained loyal to his country through it all.
As air strikes carpeted Yemen's capital, Sam Farran was one of only a few Americans in the war-ravaged country. He was there to conduct security assessments for a variety of international firms. Days after his arrival, he was brutally seized and taken hostage by Houthi rebels. Sam would spend the next six months suffering a horrific ordeal that would test his endurance, his loyalty and his very soul.Every day his captors asked him--as a fellow Muslim--to betray America and his Marine heritage in exchange for his freedom. Would he give in to the Houthis and return to his Middle Eastern roots? In the end--and despite daily threats to his life--Sam found the strength to resist, and came out of his ordeal with an increased sense of being, foremost, a US Marine.
The Tightening Dark is an intimate, riveting and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country. And a reminder that the best parts of the American dream are the dreamers--those who pledge to being American, regardless of where they are born.
This gripping and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and 30-year U.S. Marine veteran as he, suffering a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen, remained loyal to America.
Includes index.