Even Silence Has an End: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle, (Paperback)

from RobinDawson

Six years of imprisonment in the jungles of the Amazon must have been a hideous experience - and it's inherently difficult to make an interesting story out of a long period of unrelieved hardship. Even harder to get through as I didn't think it was well written, and I also wondered whether the au...

from NielsenGW

Without a doubt, Ingrid Betancourt's Even Silence Has an End is one of the most heart-breaking, gut-wrenching memoirs I've read in a long time. In 2002, Betancourt was campaigning to become President of Colombia as a Green Party member. At a traffic checkpoint in Colombia's DMZ, she was kidnapped...

from gbelik

Ingrid Betancourt, was held hostage by the FARC in the remote jungles of Columbia for six years. What courage and character it took to survive this ordeal! The book was an ordeal in itself as Ingrid is moved from one remote camp to another anonymous and indistinguishable remote place. Her existen...

from bakersfieldbarbara

I will never again lightly look over a news report on hostages or captivity in any form after reading this book. Life is so taken for granted when not being tormented and punished by terrorists and Ms. Betancourt's description of her ordeal will never leave my mind as I recall her astounding stor...

from samanthafreeman

This book is not a cheery read. Six and a half long years in capticity told in a way that leaves you in awe of her abilty to remember the tiniest of details. I was moved by the book and am astounded that she was able to go through what she did and survive without going insane. It details her five...