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  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi; New edition edition (1 April 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 055213953X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552139533
  • Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 10.8 x 19 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 118,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A remarkable account of courage, endurance, hope, and love.

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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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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
humbling 11 Jun 2002
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This book is one of my favorites ever. John almost took me into the small, terrifying spaces he lived in for 5 years. I can almost smell the place, feel his fear and absolute terror that there is no-one out here is remembering him. Unbeknown to him, Jill faught tirelessly for his release. I read this book a long time ago, but still can feel the empathy with him & Brian Keenan as they sat in darkness........making chess pieces, amongst other things. Their bodies fell apart but thier minds proved that no-one could take away their thoughts, regardless of the fear & isolation. Their spirit was so strong, maybe they hold an experience that makes their (now) free lives so so much more precious than ours.I am so amazed that he kept his spirit and humour throughout.John McCarthy & Brian Keenan have to rate as my 'most wanted' at my my all time dinner companions.Read this book, you won't be dissapointed. Just be glad that he is now free..and no doubt he has a wonderful life to boot, albeit without Jill. Not an 'happy ever after' story (don't expect 'titanic' romantisism here). He is left with some demons I am sure...but that's another book!!!
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yes, humbling 28 Jan 2004
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the further you get into this book the more unputdownable it becomes. Whilst it is not a classic of literature, it is very well written, and John McCarthy writes very well about his time in captivity. What came through to me as I read it was the horror of the LENGTH of time he remained there, year after year, so it is good to read at the same time of what Jill Morrell was doing, or trying to do, to help him. In many ways the most eye-opening part of the book is the section describing the difficulties they both found coping with life, and their relationship, after John's return. How do two ordinary people, who've become so well-known they are considered public property, manage to have a life of their own whilst coming to terms with the preceding five and a third years?
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What can you say about this book? "Well done for getting kidnapped and getting this book out John!". Or, "Jill, you captured your agony perfectly, congratulations!".

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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