Jessica Buchanan
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Then on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. After 93 days of fruitless negotiations, President Barack Obama ordered Navy...