977 Days a Hostage: Was Forgiveness Just Stockholm Syndrome?
A journalist's two-and-a-half-year ordeal in Somali pirate camps forces a question every crisis negotiator and leader must face: where empathy ends and survival instinct begins.

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A journalist's two-and-a-half-year ordeal in Somali pirate camps forces a question every crisis negotiator and leader must face: where empathy ends and survival instinct begins.
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