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Finalist for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-Fiction and the Ottawa Book Award for English Non-FictionLonglisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Non-FictionNational BestsellerFor decades Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs. In one heart-stopping minute all of that changed. On December 14 2008 Fowler acting as the UN Secretary Generals Special Envoy to Niger was kidnapped by Al Qaeda becoming the highest ranked UN official ever held captive. Along with his colleague Louis Guay Fowler lived slept and ate with his captors for nearly five months gaining rare first-hand insight into the motivations of the worlds most feared terror group. Fowlers capture release and subsequent media appearances have helped shed new light on foreign policy and security issues as we enter the second decade of the War on Terror.A Season in Hell is Fowlers compelling story of his captivity told in his own words but it is also a startlingly frank discussion about the state of a world redefined by clashing civilizations.