PositiveThe Sunday Times (UK)The picture Diane paints of the incompetence and fearful mishandling of the American hostages is horrifying ... The book is compact and well-told, although I wish McCann had been a little less writerly in the jarring opening and final chapters, written in the third person with flourishes I found distracting. The rest of it flows fine and true. Diane Foley’s faith and empathy — she worries about Kotey’s daughters, living in a camp in Syria — is nothing short of miraculous.
