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Now a stirring movie from Paramount Pictures–starring Kate Mara (House of Cards and Fantastic Four) and David Oyelowo (Selma)–this inspirational, news-making life story of the young female hostage who in 2005 single-handedly talked the infamous Atlanta courthouse killer, Brian Nichols, into surrendering peacefully by gaining his confidence through her prayers and personal faith and by reading passages to him from the Christian blockbuster A Purpose Driven Life.

In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, Ashley shares the details of her traumatic ordeal and expands on how her faith and the bestselling book The Purpose-Driven Life helped her survive and bring the killer’s murderous rampage to a peaceful end.

Like her captor, Smith too has faced darkness and despair. Seeking a new life, she moved to Atlanta, got a job, enrolled in a medical assistant training program, and was beginning to find her way to becoming the kind of mom she wanted her little girl to have. Then Brian Nichols took her hostage. Just hours earlier, he’d allegedly shot to death a judge, a court reporter, a deputy, and a federal agent and escaped in a stolen vehicle. Now she found herself face-to-face with Nichols, a desperate, heavily armed man with nothing left to lose.

Juxtaposing the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the tragedies and triumphs of her own life, Captive is a riveting story that will leave no reader untouched.

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Captive Audiobook Narrator

Ashley Smith is the narrator of Captive audiobook that was written by Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith lives in North Augusta, South Carolina with her husband Daniel Robinson and her three children Paige, Riley, and Cole. She is an imaging technician at University Hospital, loves to run, paint and enjoys crafts. She also travels the world and shares her story through public speaking, and finds it very rewarding.

About the Author(s) of Captive

Ashley Smith is the author of Captive

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Captive Full Details

Narrator Ashley Smith
Length 5 hours 43 minutes
Author Ashley Smith
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date August 18, 2015
ISBN 9780062440716

Subjects

The publisher of the Captive is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs

Additional info

The publisher of the Captive is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062440716.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Jerry

January 10, 2021

WOW! What an amazing story! This account is way more moving than the news reports; if you think you know what really happened, this book will tell you much more! I recommend it to all Christians (well, except the ones who can't handle such themes due to tragedies in their own lives).

Eva-Marie

July 27, 2009

I have to admit how impressed I am with this book. I like Ashley Smith. I didn't think I would. I don't like, at this point in my life, many women who give their children up, women who use ice, women who loathe themselves so much it's coming out of their pores, but...I like Smith. She's just likable in some strange way. She's still, or at least was, a sucky "mother"- I'd have to say that about anyone who chooses ice over their child. (I did drugs too- I stopped because of my child so no excuses please.) That said I was able to relate to some of the things in Ashley's life- her relationship, or lack thereof, with her family, them not trusting her, the friends, the drugs, the living dangerously, etc. She was in the wrong and she admits it. It's frightening that it took her something like this to see the wrong in what she was doing and it's sad that it wasn't her daughter who made her see, if anyone, but she did see. I don't know that she did so much in having Nichols surrender- I think that it's obvious from the book that Nichols really wasn't up for running in the first place. He was scared, he was or thought he was on trial for things he didn't do, and I don't think he meant to kill those people. He killed them and he surrendered to pay for his crimes. I don't think Ashley has such a big hand in that. I like the religious part of the book (never thought I'd say that!) It's not over the top, she's not preaching but she does talk about God. Usually, when someone has an event in their life so traumatic to lead them to write a book they get "saved". No, not the saved in church, I'm talking jail "saved". You get it, it's not real and they're way over zealous. This wasn't the case here so no one let that stop you from reading this. I maybe skipped three sentences in the whole book, something I don't normally do, but that shows at least how often she got on a God kick. I definitely recommend and am glad I happened to pick this up.

Diana

September 16, 2015

What a amazing story!! I am sure this movie will hold you captive as the book has done. I can't imagine the fear that went through Ashley Smith during this abduction! I remember when this happened I am glad to see the story out in book and now a movie also. What a courageous woman she is. God was with her that day! I have read the Purpose Driven Life a awesome book! Glad she had it there with her and was studying it. Ashley a broken person, being held by a murder who is broken , but God prevails through it all! The book is written as being told by Ashley, may not be pretty up and fancy but it is the account as it happened to her. That's the true story!! I give it 5 stars! I was given this book by Flyby Productions, Propeller for my own honest opinion!"FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD"

Angie

June 10, 2010

She's very wordy and tends to repeat herself, but Ashley Smith gives you the play-by-play of what happened when she was held in her apartment with a man who'd killed 4 people that day. The ending is predictable if you watched the news in 2005, where he surrendered after he telling him God had a purpose for him in all this. The only downer was she built such a repoire/ friendship with him but then didn't seem to follow up with that. She has a blog and I even asked her if she's encouraged him since. She said she's considered writing him in prison. I wish it told you more about how he's doing since the arrest...

Audrey

November 23, 2011

I was amazed how God used Ms. Smith, a former drug addict, to reach Brian Nichols, a killer on the loose. It impressed me how much God loves everyone. No matter what he or she has done God loves each individual and wants to work in his life. I found myself having compassion for the killer as well. I have been praying for both of them.

Karen

March 02, 2018

A real miracle! An amazing story God is forgiving and guides us all though a purpose driven life !

David

April 26, 2009

An amazing story of relationship evangelism, under extreme conditions, this memoir of Ashley Smith's hours with on-the-run murderer Brian Nichols is compelling. Smith holds nothing back as she lays bare her own failures and losses, and how her story -- and persistent (if back-sliding) faith -- reached Nichols. Inspiring.

Emily

January 12, 2009

I read this book about three years ago and its definitely one that I recommend. It is such an incredible story and one to really reflect personally upon.

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