Which former Beirut hostage wrote “An Evil Cradling”?
Brian Keenan (writer) Cradling" was filmed as "Blind Flight". Brian Keenan (writer) Brian Keenan (born 28 September 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish writer whose work includes the book "An Evil Cradling", an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990. Keenan was born into a working-class family in East Belfast in 1950. He left Orangefield School early and began work as a heating engineer. However, he continued an interest in literature by attending night classes and in 1970 gained a place at the
Brian Keenan (writer) sisters were flown by Irish Government executive jet to Damascus to meet him and bring him home to Northern Ireland. He now lives in Dublin. He returned to Beirut in 2007 for the first time since being released 17 years earlier, and described "falling in love" with the city. "An Evil Cradling" is an autobiographical book by Keenan about his four years as a hostage in Beirut. The book revolves heavily around the great friendship he experienced with fellow hostage John McCarthy, and the brutality that was inflicted upon them by their captors. It was the 1991 winner of the