The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East

In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father’s captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States—as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today.

In 1991, seven-year-old Sulome Anderson met her father, Terry, for the first time. While working as...