Means of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan the Middle East and Vietnam

A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously.―Kirkus Reviews . For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputos classic memoir of Vietnam A Rumor of War here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures updated with a foreword that assesses the state of the world and the journalists art. . As a journalist Caputo has covered many of the worlds troubles and in Means of Escape he tells the reader in moving and clear-eyed prose how he made himself into a writer traveler and observer with the nerve to put himself at the center of the worlds conflicts. As a young reporter he investigated the Mafia in Chicago earning acclaim as well as threats against his safety. Later he rode camels through the desert and enjoyed Bedouin hospitality was kidnapped and held captive by Islamic extremists and was targeted and hit by sniper fire in Beirut with memories of Vietnam never far from the surface. And after it all he went into Afghanistan. Caputos goal has always been to bear witness to the crimes ambitions fears ferocities and hopes of humanity. With Means of Escape he has done so.