{"product_id":"9781585446322","title":"Long March to Freedom: The True Story of a Colombian Kidnapping","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunning late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retén, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn’t operate on a main highway in broad daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Hargrove had been dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists who believed he was a valuable hostage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor almost a year, Hargrove was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children’s notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHargrove’s story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for the major motion picture Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, Long March to Freedom chronicles one man’s spirited determination to hang onto life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308435255536,"sku":"9781585446322","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781585446322_p0.jpg?v=1764105324","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781585446322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}