Kidnapped
Subtitle: true stories of twelve Irish hostages
By: A. J. Davidson.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan; M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Political kidnapping -- Ireland.; Hostages -- Ireland.
Description: Reviews of Kidnapped

"This new book by Davidson is a very interesting read and will prove popular in bookshop sales."

Eamonn Fitzgerald, Killarney Advertiser

"Davidson gives a cool and dispassionate account of the crimes overlaid with sensitivity notably in the account of Deirdre Crowley's brutal shotgun killing by her most-wanted father."

The Mayo News

"Aside from the facts of the kidnaps themselves, the book's major strength is in the way Davidson connects these episodes and some of the people involved in them to other political events in Ireland."

Mary Lynch, Business Ireland Magazine

"The author catches the mood of time of the crime, but has tempered his choice of words, and indeed his selection of illustrations, with sensitivity towards both the victims and their families."

Mary O'Sullivan, Ireland of the Welcomes

"Paramiltary activity and criminal antics in Kerry came under intense surveillance during the course of high-profile garda investigations into many of the most notorious kidnapping cases in the State, it is revealed in a new book destined for the bestseller lists."

John O'Mahony, The Kingdom
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Curran family and Littlejohn Brothers; title: Thomas Niedermayer - A Double Tragedy; title: Dr. Herrema and the siege at Monasterevin; title: Father Hugh Murphy - Killers in the Ranks; title: Ben Dunne and his Subsequent Fall from Grace; title: Shergar and the Fossett's Ponies; title: Kirkpatricks, Richard Hill and the Supergrass Trial; title: Bon Tidey and the murders at Derrada Wood; title: Jennifer Guinness; title: Brian Keenan; title: John O'Grady kidnap and mutilation; title: Deirdre Crowley and the murder/suicide by her father.