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Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove,
communications director for an international agricultural aid
organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted
a roadblock, or reten, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at
the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn't
operate on a main highway in broad daylight. But Hargrove had been
dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a
non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a
vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists
who believed he was a valuable hostage. For almost a year, Hargrove
was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to
another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily
experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children's
notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal.
Hargrove's story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for
the major motion picture ""Proof of Life"", starring Russell Crowe
and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, ""Long March to
Freedom"" chronicles one man's spirited determination to hang onto
life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances.
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