Still traumatised years later by second world war experience in a Japanese POW camp, he seeks out his chief captor (Hiroyuki Sanada) in an attempt to gain closure.
Bizot, a French ethnologist seized by Cambodian rebels in 1971, recalls peculiar daily chat sessions over politics and philosophy with his chief captor, an obviously dangerous man who later ran one of the Khmer Rouge's ghastliest killing fields; after three months, Bizot was given an all-night farewell party and released.
Three years ago he escaped, and the police chief and his captor were arrested, found guilty of extortion and sentenced to jail.
Inspired by a true story, this novel is about a New Hampshire man who is captured by an Indian raiding party during the French and Indian War and spirited off to Canada, where he builds a deep relationship with his captor, an aging chief.
Zamperini, who died last year aged 97, later returned to Japan to meet his captors, but his chief wartime tormentor, a prison guard named Mutsuhiro Watanabe, reportedly turned down his request for a meeting.
Brody is, after all, personifying a struggle between good and evil: the good bit is the all-American father-hero-soldier; the bad is the convert to Islam and terrorism (what a myth-busting connection, thanks Homeland!) Look at how he gets into this: the good marine sees the son of his captor-turned-saviour, chief terror baddie Abu Nazir, killed in a secret US drone attack in Iraq.
Her captors demanded $1 million for her release, but the regional chief of the Federal Security Services, Oleg Dukanov, said no ransom was paid.
Mr. Mohammed met his captors at first with cocky defiance, telling one veteran C.I.A. officer, a former Pakistan station chief, that he would talk only when he got to New York and was assigned a lawyer — the experience of his nephew and partner in terrorism, Ramzi Yousef, after Mr. Yousef's arrest in 1995.
The EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton issued a strong statement today condemning the treatment Mr Bulatov received at the hands of his captors.
Gen. Ori Orr, chief of Northern Command, said on the Army's radio station that no trace of the soldiers or their captors had been found.
But he didn't want to go and Terry Anderson (who was chief Middle East correspondent for Associated Press) had the avenues to make the cause available to the American public". But the captors decided to release Weir, a Presbyterian minister.
