Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment
Padnos, Theo, 1968-2021
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Click and Collect for Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment"...Padnos recounts his time in captivity in Syria, where he was frequently tortured at the hands of the al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra. We learn not only about Padnos's harrowing experience, but we also get a firsthand account of life in a Syrian village, the nature of Islamic prisons, how captors interrogate someone suspected of being CIA, the ways that Islamic fighters shift identities and drift back and forth through the veil of Western civilization, and much more." -- Amazon.com.
Main title:
Blindfold : a memoir of capture, torture, and enlightenment / Theo Padnos.
Author:
Padnos, Theo, 1968-, author
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Imprint:
New York : Scribner, 2021.©2021
Collation:
xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- My plan -- A kidnapping -- The Falcons of the land of Sham -- Into the darkness -- Their news -- The villa basement -- Matt's escape -- A voyage into darkness -- The farmhouse prison -- The Caliphate lives -- A voyage with Jebhat al-Nusra -- My way out.
ISBN:
9781982120825 (hbk)9781982120825
Dewey class:
956.910423092956.91
Language:
English
Subject:
Padnos, Theo, 1968-Qaida (Organization)Hostages -- Syria -- BiographyHostages -- United States -- BiographyJournalists -- United States -- BiographyPolitical kidnapping -- SyriaTorture -- SyriaSyria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Personal narratives, AmericanAutobiographiesPersonal narratives
BRN:
394196
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 956.91 PAD | Available |
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