Hostage: Kidnapped on the High Seas
By Linda Davies
Genre: Memoir
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Book Synopsis
Known for her powerful female protagonists who refuse to
back down in the face of evil, New York Times bestselling author Linda Davies
somehow found herself in a situation that could have been ripped from the pages
of one of her thrillers.
In 2005, Linda was living happily with her family in Dubai.
Ever the adventurer, she was on the maiden voyage of her new catamaran
alongside her husband when the boat's captain unknowingly sailed into sharply
contested waters in the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Iran. Soon the trio
were surrounded by gun boats and boarded by armed Iranian militants.
Over the next two weeks Linda was held hostage by one of the
most feared regimes in the world, with no reason to expect anything but the
worst. The story of her imprisonment and harrowing escape, which she has worked
so hard in the past to forget, is told in candid and shocking detail. Crackling with tension, it is also laced
through with black humor and insight. Iran is perhaps the most hated and the
least understood country in modern society and Linda's account gives a rare,
illuminating glimpse into the realities of the oppressive regime.
Author Bio
Linda Davies is half Welsh, half Danish, or half Celt, half
Viking, and loves myths, legends of warriors and the sea.
A graduate in
Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, she worked for seven
years an as investment banker in New York, London and Easter Europe before
escaping to write novels. She grew up
steeped in economics as both her late father, Professor Glyn Davies and her
late brother, Professor John Davies, were economists. Like them, she believes that economics is
more art than science and she particularly enjoys delving into the emotions of
markets and market makers, both the honest (yes, they do exist!) and the
fraudsters, many of whom remain invisible.
Her first Novel, Nest of Vipers, has been published in over
thirty countries, selling over two million copies. It has also been optioned three times by
major Hollywood studios.
Linda has written
four more novels for adults which have all been published internationally;
Wilderness of Mirrors, Into the Fire, Something Wild and Final Settlement. She is known for her portrayal of strong,
independent and rebellious women in extreme situations.
Linda lived in Peru for three years, and in the Middle East
for eight years, during which time she was kidnapped by Iranian government
forces and held hostage for two weeks in Iran.
After UK government intervention, she was freed.
Linda writes for Young Adults too. Her first series, the Djinn Quintet - Sea
Djinn, Fire Djinn, Storm Djinn and King of the Djinn (and in time War of the
Djinn) - has been optioned by Hollywood producer, Sandy Climan.
As well as writing
novels, Linda also writes for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph,
Independent and the Guardian newspapers in the UK, and the National
Theatre. She is a winner of the Philip
Geddes Prize for journalism. Linda is
married with three children. She lives
by the sea in Suffolk.
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