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Author: Dimitri Bontinck
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 16.50cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9781470853648
ISBN 10: 1470853647
Publication Date: 08 August 2017
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General/trade
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Reading Bontinck' s harrowing accounts and his philosophy of 'believe in and pursue (your dream) until the end of your strength' provides the reader with a motivational boost for facing challenging situations. -- Jean M. Griffing, A. K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands, California Equally thrilling and alarming, Rescued from ISIS is a true story that reads like Not without My Daughter meets Taken. -- Bruce Porter, author of Snatched Mr. Bontinck is the rare type of individual who understands that simply hoping for evil and injustice in the world to politely go away is a fatuous mindset at best and a life threatening one at worst. Listen closely to what he is saying. Ignore him at your own risk. -- Douglas Laux, former CIA operations officer [Bontinck's] personal, in-depth account is a powerful dissection of the step-by-step recruitment of his son into the web of Islamic terrorist networks...A moving personal account that offers profound insights into Islamic terrorism and the struggle against it. -- Kirkus Reviews Bontinck charts the evolution of a curious, Catholic boy into a sixteen-year-old jihadist, brainwashed by 'hardline, pure Islamic views, ' militant videos, and lectures on Islamophobia and 'corrupt Christians'....Bontinck's dogged determination and meaningful contacts opened the door for Jay's release months later. The rescue is one of the few success stories among parents who have lost their children to ISIS recruitment. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Bontinck describes his odyssey into the heart of ISIS territory with an urgent, staccato ring. You can almost picture him jotting down notes while bumping across dusty roads to the next meeting that will hopefully lead him closer to Jay...The very fact that Bontinck escaped with his own life, and that of his son...without any knowledge of Arabic or any pre-existing contacts in Syria in the midst of a war zone is miraculous. -- Christian Science Monitor A desperate dad rescued his jihadist son from the bloody grasp of ISIS-and dismantled a major terrorist network in the process. -- New York Daily News
Author Information
Dimitri Bontinck is a former soldier for the Belgian army, UN peacekeeper in Slovenia, and security officer who in 2013 discovered that his teenaged son had traveled to Syria to join the group that later became ISIS. Bontinck traveled to Syria and, after several dangerous encounters with ISIS jihadis, rescued his son from the terrorist group. Since then, he has traveled numerous times to the region to save other young men and has become an expert on resistance to violent Islamic radicalism. Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
