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Aug 29, 2014rpavlacic rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A strong story from a very courageous woman who suffered the worst nightmare any one can imagine. What is infuriating is that Smart could have been rescued months earlier when she and her kidnappers showed up at the Salt Lake City central library and the police could not read through Brian David Mitchell's evasiveness. In the end, it was Smart's decision to go against her principles and manipulate her tormentors into going from California and back to Utah that proved to save her life and led to her rescue. The blunt conclusion is never to trust or to help strangers under any circumstances, for it was the family's previous generosity to one - Mitchell - that backfired in their faces horribly. And that police need to turn on their BS meter. They're as responsible for Smart's continued torture as Mitchell is. Bottom line is that she's a hero who refused to cave in.