On the first day of Operation Desert Storm, John Peters and his co-pilot John Nichol are shot down by a shoulder-launched missile, and endure a seven-week period of mental and physical torture at the hands of their captors.

Journalist Michael Scott Moore travelled to Somalia to research and report on the piracy crisis in the country, little did he know he would be captured and held in extreme conditions for over two and a half years by Somali pirates.

When the Robertson family decided to sail around the world in a six-berth yacht, little did they know an unfortunate encounter with a pod of killer whales would end their journey within weeks.

In June 2002, Peter Shaw, a banker from Wales, was brutally kidnapped by a pseudo-military organisation in a busy suburb of Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, in eastern Europe.

Peter Moore is offered a job teaching locals in Iraq, what starts out as an interesting opportunity descends into chaos when his offices are raided by Shia militia. He is taken hostage and used as a bargaining tool for the release of Iraqi hostages.

Emergency worker Ian Purchase works in hostile environments. British hostages are taken by the Taliban and Ian goes to help. His drive to help others leads to his own kidnapping and subsequent imprisonment by brutal extremists.