Download Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

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Impossible Odds The Kidnapping of Jessica
Buchanan
and
Her
Dramatic
Rescue
by
SEAL
Team
Six
Description
The New York Times8211betselling memoir of a
woman
taken by
Somali pirates, her husband8217sefforts to
bring her home, and a daring rescue by SEAL Team
Six.In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica
Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to pursue her
dream of
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teaching African children. There, she met and
married Erik Landemalm, a Swedish humanitarian
aid worker. When Jessica and Erik moved to
Somalia to start a family, their future
couldn8217thave been brighternbspnbspnbspBut
on October 25, 2011, Jessica was kidnapped at
gunpoint and held for ransom by Somali pirates.
For the next three months, she was terrorized by
gangsters and kept on a starvation diet. Every
terrifying moment Jessica spent in captivity was
matched by that of her husband, working behind
the scenes to bring her to safety.After
ninety-three days of fruitless negotiations,
President Barack Obama ordered Navy SEAL Team Six
to attempt a rescue operation. On January 25,
2012, the team of twenty-four SEALs attacked the
heavily armed hostiles. They killed all nine with
no harm to the hostages. In Impossible Odd,
Jessica and Erik chronicle their mutual journey
in riveting detail.