kidnapping victims

On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.

A fictionalized account of the sixteen months a newspaper heiress spent underground with two members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

FBI agent Ana Grey is called in to investigate when a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted, but she soon finds herself becoming obsessed with the case, which leads her to an act of desperation and panic.

The story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

When Jacob and his friends are abducted and forced to become child soldiers in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, they await rescue but realize surviving may mean taking things into their own hands.

A novel about a group of boys in Uganda who are kidnapped and forced to join the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, and their desperate escape, only to return home to discover that their friends and family are afraid of them.

In 2002 Michelle Knight was kidnapped by a Cleveland bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade she endured unimaginable torture. At her rescue, investigators and psychologists would liken her years of imprisonment to that of a prisoner of war. In 2003 Castro kidnapped Amanda Berry and in 2004 he took Gina DeJesus. The three escaped on May 6, 2013. Michelle's past fight to remain a person of worth and her determination now to build a life worth living is beyond inspirational.

Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal which has gone bad $1 (Bwhen it suddenly turns nightmarish. Shooting David and kidnapping Patty, their Russian business partners drive her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Moscow. There, her captors $1 (Balong with brutal Islamic terrorists $1 (Bwill attempt to ransom her. Patty will face the most frightening ordeal imaginable. For the first time in history, FBI agents must work with Russian security forces. In an atmosphere of violent mistrust and political hatred, only their burning desire to rescue Patty Monroe will hold the operation together. Burned is inspired by the horrifying ordeal of Yvonne Bornstein. Kidnapped in Russia in the 1990s by Islamic terrorists, Yvonne and her husband were held for ransom. During her captivity she was tortured, starved, and abused. Her captors were affiliated with early al Qaeda partisans. While this book is fiction, Burned captures the spirit of Yvonne $1 (Bs resistance and ultimate triumph.

A wealthy industrialist's son was believed to have faked his own kidnapping, but Cole and Pike find it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken by professional border kidnappers who buy, sell, and steal victims like commodities. When Cole goes undercover to try to buy the hostages back, he himself disappears. It is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps.