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Carpenter, Teresa
The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
New York Simon & Schuster 2003 0743200551 / 9780743200554 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine Collectible SIGNED
xiii, 238 pp., [8] pp. of plates, illus., map, biblio., index; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. A near-fine copy of the first printing, with light handling soil on the boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "On September 3, 1901, Miss Ellen Stone, an American missionary, set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge she was attacked by a band of masked men who carried her off the road and, more significantly, onto the path of history. Stone would become the first American captured for ransom on foreign soil. In The Miss Stone Affair, master storyteller and Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter re-creates the drama of this country's first modern hostage crisis -- an event that held the world's attention and dominated the headlines in American and European dailies for months. Using a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diplomatic cables, she constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. On a journey that takes the reader from Boston's Beacon Hill to Constantinople and the bloody revolution-wracked nation-states of the Balkans, Carpenter introduces an unforgettable cast of characters: the strong-willed Miss Stone and her Bulgarian companion, Katerina Tsilka, who is brought along by the kidnappers -- in deference to Victorian convention -- as a chaperone the terrorists who threaten to murder their hostages and yet are awed when Tsilka gives birth to a baby girl the diplomat who sees the Stone case as a vehicle for his personal ambition rival negotiators whom the terrorists pit one against the other a media mogul obsessed with finding the hostages and securing their literary rights and, of course, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, who must decide if he should, as many of his countrymen are demanding, send warships to the Near East or if some quieter form of intervention might win the day. Teresa Carpenter has produced a turn-of-the-century international thriller with precision, drama, and historical perspective. This is a story for our time. / Teresa Carpenter is a former senior editor of The Village Voice, where her articles on crime and the law won a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of three books, including the bestselling Missing Beauty. She lives in New York's Greenwich Village with her husband, Newsweek columnist Steven Levy, and their son." - Publisher.
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