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Author : Yat-sen Sun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kidnapped in London written by Yat-sen Sun and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Mitchell
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008292263
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book That Time I Got Kidnapped written by Tom Mitchell and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anja Shortland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192547518
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Kidnap written by Anja Shortland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066150
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Birthright written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the remarkable story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped." Award-winning author Ekrich recounts an extraordinary family drama of betrayal and loss--but also of resilience, survival, and redemption.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1886 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
Author : Mary Quin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780577931
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Kidnapped in Yemen written by Mary Quin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mary Quin ripped an AK-47 from the hands of a wounded kidnapper and made her escape in the Yemeni desert, she knew her life could never be the same. An exotic vacation had turned into a nightmare as she and 15 fellow tourists were used as human shields in a terrifying gun battle between the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army and Yemeni troops that left four hostages and three kidnappers dead. Lucky to be among those who survived, Quin returned to the United States but found herself preoccupied with trying to understand why the kidnapping occurred. Her absorbing journey through murky militant Islam and shadowy terrorist groups led her back to Yemen to try to piece together the puzzle - talking to the Yemeni Prime Minister, British embassy staff, the FBI and prisoners accused of terrorism. Her enquiries also took her to London to meet Abu Hamza al-Masri, the notorious disfigured cleric with ties to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army. Kidnapped in Yemen is the unforgettable first-hand account of this remarkable woman's unusual story of curiosity, survival and healing.
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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Author : Charles Fox
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250199522
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Charles Fox and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, "Little Paul's" life may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His was one of the trio of high-profile kidnappings that defined the decade--along with Frank Sinatra, Jr's and Patty Heart's--and permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother back in the States as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions.Kidnapped is richly reported--including many interviews with Getty himself ranging from the late 1970s to the early 1990s--that raise new angles about the case, such as: how much did Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers and why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began at the equivalent of $550,000 in lire and bulged to 3.6 million as the months dragged on. Charles Fox has captured the voices of models and maids, carabinieri and club-owners, drug dealers and drivers alongside the Getty family members themselves to paint an evocative portrait of an era and one of its most misunderstood participants.
Author : Richard Clutterbuck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349187542
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response written by Richard Clutterbuck and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siobhan Dowd
Publisher : David Fickling Books
ISBN 13 : 0375849351
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The London Eye Mystery written by Siobhan Dowd and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.
Author : Patrick Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315534320
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins written by Patrick Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Yatsen (1866-1925) occupies a unique position in modern Chinese history: he is equally venerated as the founding father of the nation by both the mainland Communist government and its Nationalist rival in Taiwan. The first president of the Republic of China in 1911-12, the peasant-born yet Western-trained Dr Sun was also a dedicated political theorist, constantly in search of the ideal political and constitutional blueprint to underpin his incomplete revolution. A decade before the public emergence in Japan of his ‘Three Principles of the People’, and weeks before even his first slim publication in 1897, Kidnapped in London, Sun was already hard at work in the Reading Room of the British Museum, planning his most ambitious book yet: a comprehensive political treatise in English on the tyrannical misgovernment of the Chinese nation by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Started then abandoned twice over, destined never to be completed, let alone published, we can only conjecture what title this revolutionary book might have had. The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins is the first study of this lost work in all scholarship, Western or Chinese. It draws its originality and its themes from three primary sources, all presented here for the first time. The first is a series of interconnected lost writings co-authored by Sun Yatsen between 1896 and 1898. The second is the mass of lost political interviews with, and articles dedicated to, Sun Yatsen and his politics, first published in the British press in the aftermath the dramatic world-famous rescue of Sun from inside the Chinese Legation in London in 1896. The third source is the ‘Apostle of the Simple Life for Children’, the Anglo-Jewish Rabbi Edwin Collins (1858-1936), a devotee and practitioner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile and the New Education movement it inspired, who became Sun’s writing collaborator of choice during his years of political exile from China. Drawing on this wealth of neglected material, Patrick Anderson’s book offers a genuinely fresh perspective on Sun Yatsen and his political motivations and beliefs.
Author : Karen Shalev Greene
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317095537
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Missing Persons written by Karen Shalev Greene and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing person is an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and where there is some concern for his or her wellbeing. In the UK, around 250,000 people are reported missing every year, with the majority being children under the age of 18. Despite the fact that missing persons are a social phenomenon which encompasses vast areas of interest, relatively little is known about those who go missing, what happens to them while they are missing, and what can be done to prevent these incidents from occurring. This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time ideas and expertise across this vast subject area into one interconnected publication. It explores the subjects of missing children, missing adults, the investigative process of missing person cases, and the families of missing persons. Those with no prior knowledge or professionals with focused knowledge in some areas will be able to expand their understanding of a variety of topics relevant to this field through detailed chapters which advance our understanding of this complex phenomenon, discuss what is unknown, and suggest the best and most important steps forward to further advance our knowledge.
Author : Chloe Ayling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786068842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Six Days written by Chloe Ayling and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2017, Chloe Ayling, a 20 year old model from London, was drugged and kidnapped in Milan, Italy. She was there for a photo shoot, but ended up abducted and put up for sale on the dark web as a sex slave. Chloe was eventually set free by one of her captors, who's now facing trial in Italy, and her story has become a tabloid obsession and a national conversation. But Chloe is determined not to be a victim and in 'Six Days' she will revisit her terrifying ordeal and shed light on this disgusting version of modern slavery which goes largely unreported because of who the kidnappers target. Finally given the chance to tell the truth, this is her story.
Author : Alan Hirsch
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619029529
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped! written by Alan Hirsch and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, a thief broke into the National Gallery in London and committed the most sensational art heist in British history. He stole the museum's much prized painting, The Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. Despite unprecedented international attention and an unflagging investigation, the case was not solved for four years, and even then, only because the culprit came forward voluntarily. Kempton Bunton, an elderly gentleman, claimed he executed the theft armed with only a toy gun, a disguise purchased for five shillings, and a getaway car inadvertently provided by a drunkard. Shortly after turning himself in, Bunton also invoked language in an obscure law to maintain his innocence, despite the confession. He did not allege that the confession was false, but rather that stealing the painting did not constitute a crime because he intended to return it. On account of this improbable defense strategy, the story took another twist, resulting in a bizarre courtroom drama and extraordinary verdict. Over fifty years later, Alan Hirsch decided to explore the facts behind this historic case and uncovered shocking new evidence that both solved the crime and deepened the mystery.
Author : Patrick Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000396231
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895 written by Patrick Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen’s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun’s revolutionary relationship with Hawaiʻi and with his varied communities of supporters there during its own most turbulent political decade, the 1890s, years in which this remote island nation transformed from native monarchy, via sovereign independent republic, to become the USA’s first overseas territory. Drawn from neglected primary sources, Dynamite reveals the hitherto untold story of the secret revolutionary alliance forged in Honolulu’s backstreets between Sun’s Xingzhonghui and the idiosyncratic italophile soldier Robert Wilcox, "Hawaiʻi’s Garibaldi" and leader of the Kanaka/Native Hawaiian counterrevolution of January 1895. This failed uprising to restore Hawaiʻi’s tragic last Queen, witnessed firsthand by Sun Yatsen, became the archetype upon which ten months later Sun would base his own first attempt at armed insurrection in China: the Canton uprising of 26 October 1895. With an epic sweep across the Pacific’s Tropic of Cancer, Dynamite is the most important study yet written on the origins of Sun Yatsen’s Chinese Revolution and its dynamic interface with Hawaiian history.
Author : Colin Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906308209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Colin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somalia is a brutal, lawless country. It's a place where human life is cheap and tribal warlords are locked in a power struggle with Islamist guerillas and bands of surreal 21st-century pirates. Into this mix blunders Freeman, hoping to interview the pirates. This book tells how he was taken hostage by the pirates.
Author : Alan Johnston
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Alan Johnston and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Johnston's account of his captivity, a celebration of his journalism, and a tribute to freedom.
