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Political kidnapping

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• Kidnapping
• Political crimes and offenses

• Hostage-taking for political purposes

• Political Kidnapings, 1968-73: A Staff Study (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Night of Knives (c2007), by Jon Evans (multiple formats at Wattpad)

• Choosers of the Slain (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
• Castle of Wolfenbach (2 volumes; London: Printed for W. Lane, 1793), by Eliza Parsons (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Castle of Wolfenbach, by Eliza Parsons (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Huntingtower, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• Marie Bertrand: or, The Felon's Daughter (originally published 1864), by Horatio Alger (text at Wayback Machine)
• The Secret of Sarek (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret of Sarek (New York: Macaulay, c1920), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sheik, by E. M. Hull (Gutenberg text)
• The Sheik: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard, and Co., c1921), by E. M. Hull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Castle Gay (1930), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hounds of God (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, c1928), by Rafael Sabatini (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century, by Georgette Heyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century (1921 Houghton Mifflin edition, with added illustrations), by Georgette Heyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Facing the Flag (New York: The Federal Book Company, 1897), by Jules Verne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Facing the Flag (New York: F. M. Lupton, 1897), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)

• The Golden Lotus (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1927), by Gladys Edson Locke, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperium (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by Keith Laumer, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Vicar of Wakefield (main text from 1903 A. and C. Black edition; illustrations and accompanying essays from various editions), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by Louise Hope, contrib. by Joseph Grego, John Forster, and Austin Dobson, illust. by John Massey Wright, Margaret Jameson, and William Mulready (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Italian: or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (2 volumes; Mount Pleasant: Printed for W. Durrell et al., 1797), by Ann Radcliffe (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Italian: or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Quantum Connection (included on a Baen CD image), by Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB

• The Otherworld (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey, Mark Shepherd, and Holly Lisle
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (London: Alston Rivers, 1906), by Marjorie Bowen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Marjorie Bowen (Gutenberg text)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio

• Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy: or, A Young Reporter on the Lakes (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Howard Roger Garis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lost Child (Boston: Putnam and Hunt, Pierce and Williams, and Wait, Greene and Co., 1830), by Timothy Flint (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1946), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Kidnapped (New York and London: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Robert Louis Stevenson, contrib. by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, illust. by Louis Rhead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, Written by Himself and Now Set Forth (appears to be somewhat abridged; New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1908), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock: or, The Secret of Crag Island (text from the serial version; illustrations from serial and book versions), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)

• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Lenny, the Orphan: or, Trials and Triumphs (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1869), by Margaret Hosmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust

• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Night Riders in Gallup (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935), by Louis Colman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, One of the So-Called Christian States of North America (Boston: B. Marsh, 1846), by Lewis Garrard Clarke and Milton Clarke (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child: Containing a Full and Complete Account of the Abduction of Charles Brewster Ross (Philadelphia: J. E. Potter and Co., c1876), by Christian K. Ross
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• You're Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment (2008), by United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.org)

• Nonfamily Abducted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics (NISMART bulletin issue, October 2002), by David Finkelhor, Heather Hammer, and Andrea Sedlak
  • PDF at fdlp.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• That Hideous Strength (c1945), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Perelandra (c1943), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Out of the Silent Planet (c1938), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.