Buried Alive Review

**This is a review for Thomas Nelson's Book Sneeze program.

About the book:

Contractor Roy Hallums recounts the harrowing ten months he was held captive by Iraqi insurgents, the heroic rescue by American troops, and the faith that helped him survive it all.

In November 2004 Roy Hallums was working late at his office in Iraq at the Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Company, supposedly well-protected by armed security guards, when four kidnappers broke in and hauled him away at gunpoint. The next ten months were the darkest of his life. Hallums spent most of his time in a concrete pit beneath a farmhouse, constantly bound and blindfolded. A small pipe in the ceiling provided the room’s only oxygen – and its only link to the outside world. Hallums banked on one group in particular not forgetting his existence—the US military. And sure enough, on September 7, 2006, they successfully rescued him. This is the edge-of-your-seat story of a trip through hell for Hallums, the daring rescue mission, and faith that brought him through the experience.

My thoughts:

Mr. Hallums weaved his story along with the story of his anxious family at home. While he was eating rotten food and experiencing beatings, his family was trying to deal with the less than cooperative FBI and the more invasive press.

He spent 311 days in captivity--much of it in darkness, bound, and barely speaking. The detail with which Mr. Hallums describes his harrowing experience places the reader with him.

The book stays interesting and detailed to the end when Mr. Hallums is finally rescued. Definitely a worthwhile read!