kidnapping

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

Presents the true story of four young American rock climbers who were kidnapped by militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in August 2000 while in the Pamir-Altai Mountains and endured six days of captivity before taking drastic action to escape.

Frank Compton, employed as a sort of intergalactic detective for the mysterious alien Spiders, working to thwart the Modhri, a group-mind intent on infecting Earth, suspects that the Modhri are the source of all his troubles when a young woman who had demanded his help in finding her ten-year-old sister is later found dead--killed with his own gun.

Abuse suffered at the hands of his father and in foster homes and orphanages has left Clay Blaisdell with reduced mental skills, making him the perfect partner to seasoned criminal George Rackley who has a plan to kidnap the infant heir to a huge fortune, and who continues to aid and abet Clay even after he is murdered. Includes a short story.

Journalists Tom Smart, uncle of Elizabeth Smart, and Lee Benson chronicle the investigation of Elizabeth's 2002 kidnapping, tracing the movements of her abductors and the mistakes made by police and others during her nine months of captivity, and discuss the positive and negative actions of the media throughout her and her family's ordeal.

Mary Quin recounts the experiences she had after being captured in the Yemen desert, recalling how she managed to escape from her kidnappers and find safety in a foreign country.

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.

Billy Phelan, a pool hustler, poker player, and bookie in Depression-era Albany, New York, gets caught up in the kidnapping of a political boss's son.