Buried Alive

In Buried Alive, Roy Hallums tells his personal story of how he was kidnapped while working in Iraq. He describes how gangs of kidnappers would snatch people from their daily lives, turning their worlds upside down and demand ransom money from their government, employers or families. The living conditions he dealt with for just under a year was horrible, unfit for even animals. The part that really got me was what his family was going through during this time. He didn’t want them to know he had taken a job in Iraq, so as far as they were concerned he was still working in Saudi Arabia. They lived in the constant unknown of what would or could be happening to their father. Hallums had been in the military before so he had some training to get him through it, but mostly it looks like he lived one day at a time and kept looking forward to seeing his family. It refers to his praying a few times here and there, but really I was expecting to walk away with a more spiritual aspect from this book, especially under the circumstances he was in. I think maybe he is targeting a whole different audience that otherwise wouldn’t read religious books? I think overall it was very interesting and a good read.