The Gripping True Story of the Black Hawk Pilot, Shot Down, Captured and Tortured.
"Death was on its way. I could hear it. They were a mob of hate-filled men and women and I couldn't see them yet but their voices grew louder and louder, yelling and screaming, and the sound that really made my blood run cold was the clatter of debris being thrown out of the way as they advanced. It was like some multi-limbed hydra, stomping toward me, thundering the ground and furiously tossing away shards of metal and wood as it drew near. It was the sound of approaching death."
In the autumn of 1993 American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam.
A routine mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant's Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu and he was quickly surrounded by Somali troops and taken captive. The brutal torture he underwent was made all too clear to the world when his coerced statements were broadcast on live television and his battered face appeared on magazine covers around the globe.
Michael Durant's ordeal was first described in Mark Bowden's international bestseller 'Black Hawk Down' and the critically acclaimed film of the same name. This, his first-person, gripping account, tells of bravery under fire, torture, imprisonment, and the terrifying day-by-day reality for a soldier, unarmed and helpless in enemy hands, fighting to survive.
