Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

Jessica Buchanan · Erik Landemalm · Anthony Flacco

may 2013 · Simon and Schuster

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The New York Times–bestselling memoir of a woman taken by Somali pirates, her husband’s efforts to bring her home, and a daring rescue by SEAL Team Six.

In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to pursue her dream of teaching African children. There, she met and married Erik Landemalm, a Swedish humanitarian aid worker. When Jessica and Erik moved to Somalia to start a family, their future couldn’t have been brighter . . .

But on October 25, 2011, Jessica was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom by Somali pirates. For the next three months, she was terrorized by gangsters and kept on a starvation diet. Every terrifying moment Jessica spent in captivity was matched by that of her husband, working behind the scenes to bring her to safety.

After ninety-three days of fruitless negotiations, President Barack Obama ordered Navy SEAL Team Six to attempt a rescue operation. On January 25, 2012, the team of twenty-four SEALs attacked the heavily armed hostiles. They killed all nine with no harm to the hostages. In Impossible Odd, Jessica and Erik chronicle their mutual journey in riveting detail.

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Jessica Buchanan worked in the humanitarian aid field in Somalia. She has recently relocated to the United States, where she and her husband, Erik Landemalm, lecture on their experiences while raising their son, August, born in October, 2012.