An Evil Cradling, By Brian Keenan.

an evil cradling is a book about a school teacher who was born and grew up in Belfast, he decides to go to Beirut to teach there at a university when after just a few weeks he is captured by four men with pistols in a Mercedes and driven, in the boot, to his home for the next four and a half years, a 6ft by 4ft cell. during his captivity he tries to escape twice but fails and repeatedly tries to gain information about why he is being held there because it seemed like they were looking for an Englishman and not an Irishman. After the best part of five years he was then released and traveled back to Belfast. H.H