At the height of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite conducted several successful missions to negotiate the release of hostages held by armed groups. But in January 1987, he was captured himself. Imprisoned for nearly five years, four of them in solitary confinement, he was chained, beaten, frequently blindfolded and, on one occasion, subjected to a mock execution.
Terry Waite, MBE, CBE, a British Quaker, Anglican, humanitarian, and author, wrote his first book, Taken on Trust, in his head when he was denied pen and paper during captivity. His latest book, Out of the Silence: memories, poems, reflections, shares his innermost feelings and sheds light on the human condition.
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