TERRY WAITE AND OLLIE NORTH The Untold Story of the Kidnapping and the Release.

Author: Hewitt (Gavin)
Year: 1991
Publisher: Little, Brown
Edition Details: 1st US edn.
Book Condition: F/F
ISBN: 9780316359900
Price: £6.00
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Hardback. 1st US edn. The untold story of what happened to hostage-helper Terry Waite. And why. And how Ollie North was involved. Terry Waite was an obscure Anglican envoy until his unexpected diplomatic skills and successes in effecting the release of hostages in the Middle East thrust him onto the world stage. The envoy took on Iranian revolutionaries face to face. He managed to persuade Libya's Colonel Gadaffi to release hostages. And his gradual, growing involvement with the Americans held captive in the Middle East made him a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. Why, then, was this effective emissary of the Church of England suddenly kidnapped in Beirut in January of 1987? What had the revolutionaries suspected? How had the US government used him? What happened and why? At last, the real story about Terry Waite can be revealed, this book providing the answers to what Waite was doing in the Middle East, why he was kidnapped and what was really going on. It is a gripping, informative, and important story of personal courage, of integrity tested, and of political duplicity. Illus., sources and Index. 230pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw.

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