Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment

by Theo Padnos

Book Overview

An award-winning journalist's searing, extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years--a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance.

In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, fluent in Arabic, Russian, German, and French, traveled to a Turkish border town to write and report on the Syrian civil war. One afternoon in October, while walking through an olive grove, he met three young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982120827
• ISBN13: 9781982120825
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"