An autobiographical account of his 4 and half years of captivity in Lebanon by Brian Keenan, the Irishman who had gone to teach English at the American University in Beirut.
As detailed an account as you can get, of his imprisonment, beatings, blindfoldness, chaining, inhumanisation, total subjection - mind and body of a person. Made for difficult reading at times, pages after pages of such tragedy and torment of a human being. Being made to sit inside a cramped room with no amenities, no fan, no light, no windows, for days on end is sheer torture.
And all for what - for no cause, because he was Irishman, not a Britisher or American, and he was not a spy or a political or bureaucrat or a religious figure for being captured and tortured. Luckily for him he had John McCarthy for company most of his captive time and the two of them bonded so well that it became difficult for Brian Keenan to leave when the time came for his release.
Goodreads 4/5
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