I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
A House in the Sky: A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything (ed. Penguin UK, 2014) - ISBN: 9780670920884