Terror, Torture and Triumph - A True-life Kidnap Story With a Twist of
International Intrigue! Kidnapped by gangsters and terrorists in Russia. Her
life can only be saved by an "impossible" alliance of old enemies. One way or
another, her "Eleven Days of Hell" will end tonight!
(Todays-Woman.net) March 11th, 2006-- It took Yvonne Bornstein, author of
Eleven Days of Hell, My True Story of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture and Historic
FBI and KGB Rescue (Authorhouse, January 18, 2005 " ISBN: 1418494070) twelve
years to get past the emotional and physical trauma of her kidnapping, torture,
rape and rescue to finally tell her story. In 1992 Bornstein, a wife, mother of
two, and businesswoman, found herself caught up in the political disintegration
of the Soviet Union. Visit
www.yvonnebornstein.com for more information.
Lured to a newly capitalist Moscow by a business proposition, Yvonne and then
husband Daniel Weinstock, Australian citizens, were kidnapped, tortured and held
for $1.6 million ransom by Chechen rebels originally thought to be gypsies or
members of the Russian mob. It was only in 2002 that a key player in the rescue,
Russian attorney and Chechen terrorist expert Dimitry O. Afanasiev, amazingly
linked the kidnappers to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
Clouding the jurisdiction of the crime was the ransom demand made to Daniel
Weinstock's New Jersey family. With three countries involved, a rescue attempt
seemed impossible, particularly since the FBI and KGB had never worked together
and had been Cold War enemies. Yvonne's kidnapping and rescue eleven days later,
was an historical first joint operation between the FBI and KGB. The FBI
chronicled the event in a press release following the rescue making front page
headlines in the US and international media including The NY Times; Los Angeles,
Times, Dallas Morning News and UPI.
?Eleven Days of Hell, My True Story of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture and Historic
FBI and KGB Rescue has been critically acclaimed and described as "A
terrifyingly true thriller that grips you from the first page and never lets you
go! by Stuart Beattie, screenwriter of the hit movies Collateral and Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Yvonne Bornstein has shown
remarkable courage and skill by digging deep into her darkest nightmares and
detailing them on the page in a way that will leave you breathless..."
Yvonne's narrative is even more fascinating due to the individuals involved. The
key players read like fictional characters in a John le Carre or Robert Ludlum
novel, except Bornstein's characters are, unfortunately very real.
Yvonne Bornstein is currently in negotiations for the film rights to her story.
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Yvonne Bornstein
Yvonne Bornstein has been a corporate executive, a wife,
a mother and a kidnap victim. She is now an author with this — "Eleven Days
of Hell" — her first book. She lives in Southern California with her
husband, Sam, and their three children
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Yvonne Bornstein |
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