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Six Years with Al Qaeda
The Stephen McGown Story as told to
Tudor Cardoc-Davies

While riding his motorbike through Mali, on his way home from London to Johannesburg, Steve McGown was taken captive in Timbuktu by Al Qaeda. Life as he knew it changed in that instant. With nothing to bargain with and everything to lose, for the next six years Steve became reluctantly engaged in what he refers to as, 'the greatest chess game of my life.' 

Thousands of kilometres away in Johannesburg, the shock of his kidnapping hit his wife Cath and the rest of the McGown family. Working every option they could find, from established diplomatic protocols to the murky back channels of the kidnap game, they set to work trying to free Steve.

As the months turned into years, Steve would have to go to extraordinary lengths to survive both his prison and his captors. His sole focus was to make it back home and to raise his status among Al Qaeda. Steve taught himself French and Arabic, converted to Islam and accepted a new name, Lot. To this day he holds the unenviable record of Al Qaeda's longest held prisoner.

Six years with Al Qaeda is not just an incredible story of mental strength, physical endurance and the resilience of human spirit but also a unique, nuanced perspective of one of the world's most feared terrorist organisations. Not only did Steve McGown survive his ordeal, but in many respects he came out of the desert both a changed man and a stronger, more positive human.

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