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The Miss Stone Affair - Americas First Modern Hostage Crisis (Paperback)
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The Miss Stone Affair - Americas First Modern Hostage Crisis (Paperback)
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In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of
the country's first modern hostage crisis--an event that captured
the attention of the world, dominated American and European
headlines, and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore
Roosevelt. On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named
Ellen Stone set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous
hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge, she was
attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and,
more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become
the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil. Using a
wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, Teresa
Carpenter tells the story of Miss Stone through narrative that is
suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. On a journey
that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople
and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans,
Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the
strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina
Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers--in deference to
Victorian convention--as a chaperone; the terrorists who threaten
to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth
to a baby girl; the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle
for his personal ambition; rival negotiators whom the terrorists
pit one against the other; a media mogul obsessed with finding the
hostages and securing their literary rights; and, of course, the
new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as
many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near
East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day.
Teresa Carpenter has produced a turn-of-the-century international
thriller with precision, drama, and historical perspective. This is
a story for our time.
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