Ebook {Epub PDF} Captive by Jere Van Dyk

 · Jere Van Dyk. Home About Books Media Contact me Open Menu Close Menu. Home About Books Media Contact me Captive – My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban. Mar Written By Sam Ewenczyk "I looked at the land and the canyons around us. Everything was rugged, rust-colored in the fading sun, starkly beautiful, jagged and empty.  · Jere Van Dyk, A Taliban 'Captive' For 45 Days In , Jere Van Dyk set off from Kabul to write the authoritative book on the Taliban. That February, he became the second American journalist to Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Find Captive by Van Dyk, Jere at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

Captive for 45 days - Jere van Dyk. Posted on 04 Oktober by volksvryheid Jere Van Dyk was born in Washington state and raised in a family of Plymouth Brethren. He first went to Afghanistan in when he and his younger brother drove an old Volkswagen from Germany to Kabul. By Jere Van Dyk. pp. PublicAffairs. $ In the old days — before Al Qaeda, before the Islamic State — the worst thing that could happen to a foreign correspondent was getting shot by a. Jere Van Dyk, A Taliban 'Captive' For 45 Days In , Jere Van Dyk set off from Kabul to write the authoritative book on the Taliban. That February, he became the second American journalist to be.

Jere Van Dyk. Pulitzer-nominated journalist, expert on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. "If you want to read an amazing book, check out Captive. What this reporter lived through is, I think, pretty much the most frightening thing a journalist could be subjected to Please read it.". Captive is Van Dyk's searing account of his forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature. The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust nobody—not his jailers, not his guides (who he fears may have betrayed him), and certainly not the charismatic Taliban leader whose fleeting appearances carry the hope of redemption as well as the prospect of immediate. Jere Van Dyk is a former TV correspondent and Taliban expert (and was once held captive by them). He believes the Taliban is poorly understood in the West, but that better understanding is key for US foreign policy. He shares his views with RT.