{"product_id":"9781439130674","title":"The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis","description":"On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries.\u003cp\u003e In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154819039472,"sku":"9781439130674","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439130674_p0.jpg?v=1763756073","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439130674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}