- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407006727
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Kidnapped
A Story of Survival
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407006727
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Stanley Alpert's memoir is so wild that it could never be fictionalized. The movie should be directed by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen working in tandem!
Joseph Wambaugh
Forget about all the crime shows you've seen on television, this is what a real crime is like. Alpert nails the language, the motivations, the personalities of his kidnappers. And all through the story we see Alpert's own intelligence at work, picking up and remembering clues that'll bring the roof down on the bad guys. I read it in one big gulp.
John Sandford
Harrowing, often hilarious ... One of the most exhilarating, improbable New York stories ever told.
New York Times
An extraordinary work of fact that could top the fiction lists
Daily Sport
Throughout, Alpert wins over the reader the same way he did the kidnappers, with the force of his canny, self-assured, bighearted personality
New York Times Sunday Book Review
In accounting his ordeal, Alpert deftly weaves in family history, reflections on close friends, concerns both professional and personal, and the colors, smells and textures of New York City
Bookpage
Alpert delivers an unflinching look at the humiliating, terrifying role of the victim, lacing his plight with commentary on contemporary crime ... An effective, one-two punch of a memoir
Booklist
Like watching a slow motion train wreck - difficult to look at but impossible to turn away from
New York Newsday
Alpert's firstperson account is cool and laconic, with moments of sledgehammer certainty of death balanced by a lack of self-pity and histrionics.
Sunday Express