num_pages: 288
description: Traces the experiences of kidnapped documentary filmmaker Micah Garen, describing how his translator and he were constantly threatened with execution by their captors, and how his fiancée and her family worked for their release through a network of journalists and Middle East contacts. 175,000 first printing.
language: English
title: American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release
titlecomplete: American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Simon & Schuster