The Price Of Life

Brennan Nigel

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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 465 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In August 2008 Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia, along with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. What happens next could happen to anyone.You have a brother with a taste for adventure, who you havent heard from in a while. You get a phone call on a Sunday morning from a journalist telling you hes been kidnapped and held hostage for money a lot of money.After official government negotiations grind to a halt, Nigels family his sister, Nicky, and sister-in-law, Kellie take matters into their own hands. With Nigels life at stake, the family navigates uncharted territory, doing anything and everything to bring him home. Nicky becomes an expert negotiator and Kellie effectively an international money launderer. Meanwhile, Nigel and Amanda survive separation, isolation, relocation and brutality. The fight to free Nigel takes its toll on all of them in different ways loss of income, putting their own family lives on hold but they discover what tough stuff they are really made of.In the end, they could answer the question we all hope we never have to ask: What price do you put on a family members life And Nigel knows the real value of freedom, and the true meaning of family.

ISBN: 9781921518782

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