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On 17 April 1986 John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved, from family, friends, and, perhaps above all, from Jill Morrell, the girl he was going to marry.
For five years, John McCarthy had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of captivity; the filth and squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation and repeated self-examination; and the pain of ignorance, of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive.
For Jill Morrell, the five years of John's captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock and disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken and that her life had changed irrevocably, that all their plans had been shattered.
But Jill refused to give up hope. For five years she and a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John and all British hostages in the Middle East, until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John McCarthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. A day when they could begin again.
This is their story, a remarkable account of courage, endurance, hope and love.
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I am not sure that conventional congratulations are in order but I AM sure that I was swept away to another place and time in the moments over 3 days that I could steal to read this book. It is a book that had to be written about two unassuming people and their friends kidnapped into a place they had no right to be taken.
Like most people I clearly remember the hostages and Jill's apprarences on TV. But it is fascinating how the affair was conducted by ordinary people trying to raise awareness of a desperate plight in the media and in government.
I wish them both the best for the future.
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