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On January 6, 1992 Yvonne Weinstock and her then-husband Danny landed in Moscow on a business trip. They had just left the airport when they were ambushed, kidnapped and held for ransom for 11 horrifying days in a dilapidated country house by a gang of Russian "gypsies" who were in reality far more cold-blooded conspirators in a sinister plot that joined the Russian Mob, ex-KGB agents and early al-Qaeda operatives looking to fund terrorism, no matter the cost of human life.
This is the incredible story of those Eleven Days of Hell My True Story of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture and Historic FBI and KGB Rescue as told by Yvonne. Against all odds, the FBI and Russian intelligence agencies joined forces for the first and only time in history. Reliving the agony, horror and torture she endured, Bornstein also unravels the twists and turns of the rescue mission. Through her own research into the confidential case, Bornstein skillfully weaves a heart-thumping narrative of drama and intrigue worthy of a top-notch spy novel.
Yvonne Bornstein writes from the heart about the devastating impact of the kidnapping on her marriage and her life and shares her new found appreciation for the simple, meaningful things she had come to overlook in her drive to the top of the corporate business world; lessons in life that apply to all of us.
Yvonne Bornstein has been a corporate executive, a wife, a mother and a kidnap victim. She is the author of Eleven Days of Hell - My True Story of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture and Historic FBI and KGB Rescue - her first book.
Yvonne's second book -"BURNED" is currently being published by Tor/Forge in New York. She is co-writing with David Hagberg -author of more than twenty books. "BURNED" is due for release in early 2009.
Movie rights are being negotiated with several major Hollywood studios via Yvonne's Hollywood agent, Kevin Cleary of Content House LA.
Publishers' Weekly, January 3, 2005
"Yvonne Bornstein throws stark light on the methods of kleptocrats, and on Russia spasmodic early attempts at capitalism."
www.yvonnebornstein.com
