This section of our website offers a suggested reading list on kidnapping. If you come across books and articles that are not listed here, we would welcome your suggestions.

• UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee report on piracy off the coast of Somalia
• Kidnapped: Life as a Somali Pirate Hostage, Colin Freeman, Monday Books, 2011
• Trauma, Prof. Gordon Turnbull, Bantam Books, 2011
• AKE has produced new statistics on kidnapping around the world.
• EISF has produced two briefing papers on Crisis Management of Critical Incidents and Abduction Management
• Face to face with his kidnapper Mark Henderson's story of returning to Colombia where he had been kidnapped and meeting some of his former kidnappers.
• Even Silence Has an End: My six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle, Ingrid Betancourt, virago, 2010
• My Kidnapper is a film about Mark Henderson's return to Colombia to meet the kidnappers that held him for 8 months in 2003
• The Sky is Always There: Surviving a kidnapping in Chechnya, Camilla Carr and Jonathan James, Canterbury Press, 2008
• Prisoners of Hope: The story of our captivity and freedom in Afghanistan, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002
• In the Presence of My Enemies, Gracia Burnham, Tynedale, 2003
• Blind Flight (DVD), 2004
• Taken on Trust, Terry Waite, Coronet Books, 1993
• Some Other Rainbow, John McCarthy and Jill Morrell, Corgi Books, 1993
• An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan, Vintage, 1993
• Ransom: The untold story of international kidnapping, Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, Henry Holt and Company, 1998
• Guerrilla Hostage: The dramatic story of Ray Risling's ordeal in the Colombian jungle, Denise Marie Siino, Fleming H Revel, 1999
• Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove's own story of his kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas, Thomas R Hargrove, Ballantine Books, 1995
• Hole: Kidnapped in Georgia, Peter Shaw, Accent Press, 2006
• News of a Kidnapping, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alfred A Knopf, 1997
• Kidnapping is a Booming Business, IKV Pax Christi, 2008
• Colin Freeman: My 40 days held in a cave by Somali gunmen
• The Kidnapping Business, Rachel Briggs, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2001
• The Case that Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Lloyd C Gardner, Rutgers University Press, 2004
• The Kidnap Business, Mark Bless and Robert Low, Pelham Books, 1987
• Over the Edge: A true story of kidnap and escape in the mountains of central Asia, Greg Child, Piatkus Books, 2003
• Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion, Richard Clutterbuck, Palgrave Macmillan, 1987
• Kidnap and Ransom: The response, Richard Clutterbuck, Faber and Faber, 1978
• Hostage in Iraq, Norman Kember, Darton Longman and Todd Ltd, 2007
• Kidnapped: And other dispatches, Alan Johnston, Profile Books, 2007
• Letters to my Mother: A message of love, a plea for freedom, Ingrid Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt, and Melanie Delloye-Betancourt, HNA Books, 2008

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