"What is it like to exist for seven years in darkness and chains, not knowing from one day to the next how much longer you will be a prisoner? Or if you will be released from captivity the next day - or killed." "Terry Anderson's memoir is not only about how he survived, but also about how his spirit endured and triumphed. Physically imprisoned, beaten, treated more as an object than as a human being, Anderson found out how the human spirit can reach beyond the bars of prison." "This is both the story of his physical captivity and all of its harrowing drama and the parallel accounts of those throughout the world to whom he was connected by love and hope - his sister, Peggy Say; his fiancee, Madeleine Bassil; and his daughter, Sulome - as well as friends and colleagues who, like Terry, never gave up." "And there are some startling revelations from Washington and elsewhere as to why Terry Anderson (and the other hostages) were taken - and what was really happening behind the events of Iran-Contra and America's involvement in the lethal confusions of politics and terrorism in the Middle East." "Above all, this is the story of Terry and his fellow hostages - what they shared and how they supported one another in the days and years of darkness."--Jacket.