Robert Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs, as a policy advisor to three prime ministers, as a deputy minister of National Defence, and as Canada’s longest-serving ambassador to the United Nations.  Fowler lived, slept, and ate with his captors for over four months, gaining a rare first-hand insight into the world’s most feared terrorist group.  For those 130 punishing days, Fowler survived in extreme desert conditions at the whims of his volatile kidnappers.