Out of Captivity, subtitled Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle, is a 2009 book written by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes with the assistance of author Gary Brozek. It narrates the nearly five and a half years they spent in the Colombian jungle as prisoners of the FARC, an insurgent organization, which accused them of being members of the CIA after their plane crashed in a mountainous region on February 13, 2003.
Marc Gonsalves, served in the USAF, Keith Stansell was a Marine, and Tom Howes is a professional pilot. They were civilian contractors working for the U.S. Department of Defense at the time of the accident.
References
- Book Excerpt: 'Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle'
- Vicepresidente recibió libro ‘Out of Captivity’, de los contratistas estadounidenses rescatados Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine (In Spanish)
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