num_pages: 306
description: A federal prosecutor recounts his harrowing experience of being kidnapped in 1998 on the eve of his thirty-eighth birthday by a gang of thugs who decided to hold him when they realized that he had a large bank balance, in a dramatic account that describes how he interacted with his abductors in order to stay alive and plot his escape.
language: English
title: The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
titlecomplete: The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
genres: New York, Biography, Crime, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 694
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons