An Evil Cradling

Name: An Evil Cradling
Author: Brian Keenan
ISBN: 9780708987827

Brian Keenan

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An Evil Cradling

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When Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1980 for a change from his native Belfast, he became front-page news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburb of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and, later, his fellow hostages, among them British journalist John McCarthy. An Evil Cradling eloquently tells us how, in the most inhumane of circumstances, men grow and deepen in humanity. Keenan, subjected to brutal and dehumanizing treatment, survives through sheer force of will, stubbornness, and occasionally, humor. He emerged from this compression chamber of isolation with a rare gift intact. In this book, he uses that gift to explore the "evil cradling" of secret captivity with ruthless insight, honesty, and poetry. The claustrophobia of the hostage, the frustration and helplessness of undergoing a sentence without term or reason, is described here in ways the reader is unlikely to forget.

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