Used Book – The Forgotten Hostage, Christophe Beck, Martine Beck, Patrick Olaya

Imagine Ingrid Betancourt's captivity, endured in general indifference. Unthinkable? Impossible? Outrageous? Yet, this is the story of Christophe Beck, held captive for 371 days by the ELN, a revolutionary army less publicized than the FARC but just as formidable. One truth is evident: Not all captives are equal. The strange discretion of the Quai d'Orsay on this matter, despite his family's desperate attempts, makes this testimony urgent. History will not remember his name. A company director in the south of France, Christophe Beck decided to leave everything behind to settle with his wife on a 1000-hectare farm in southwestern Venezuela. This Frenchman saw his peaceful life as a farmer plunge into the hell of the jungle. Tied up like an animal, blindfolded, mistreated and humiliated, he reveals the daily life of a forgotten hostage. A story without demonization, where a second voice intertwines: that of his wife, who worked body and soul for his release. an "experience" at the heart of one of the world's most closed and violent guerrilla movements.