Carrie picked up "The Best American Magazine Writing 2002" for me, and what do you know, the first piece is "Gone" by Tom Junod, about Americans kidnapped in Ecuador. I've been meaning to look it up, because it's the piece on which the movie "Proof of Life" is based. I'm still undecided as to how I feel about Junod's writing style, but I s'pose it's somewhat irrelevent - he made me cry, so I guess that means it worked.