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41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider#s Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 199697,New
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On December 18, 1997, more than six hundred VIPs were attending the birthday party of the Japanese ambassador to Peru at his elegant residence. Political figures, business leaders, and socialites mingled in a tented pavilion on expansive grounds. Then, without warning, fourteen masked, heavily armed figures burst in.Members of the Tpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a deadly Cubaninfluenced band of insurgents, the terrorists demanded the release of four hundred of their comrades from prisonor they would kill all the hostages. The event inspired a media frenzyespecially when Perus president, Alberto Fujimori, refused to negotiate.What the public didnt know was that Fujimori had immediately begun planning a military assaultwith the help of one particular party guest. Luis Giampietri had been a field commander of special operation forces that had fought terrorists, including the MRTA. His quick suppression of a prison mutiny by Shining Path revolutionaries had made him a feared enemy. Now, dismissed by his captors as a harmless retiree, he became a crucial component of a complex commando rescue operation.41 Seconds to Freedom is Giampietris inside account of the unnerving ordeal and its resolution through heroism and sheer audacity. Here he tells how he used his pager to reveal to the commandos outside the terrorists positions, habits, and tactics; how one young female terrorist became infatuated with a Japanese hostagewith fateful consequences; how a Red Cross employee was discovered to be in league with the MRTA; and how the rescue took all of 41 seconds from start to finish.But Giampietris story doesnt end when the crisis did. The corruption inquiry after President Fujimoris subsequent fall from power cast doubt on the entire operation, painting liberators as executioners and making Giampietri feel forever a hostage.As riveting as any fictional thriller, and by turns encouraging and cautionary, 41 Seconds to Freedom is an invaluable account of one of the most dramatic terrorist hostage takings in history.
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