Out of Captivity

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| author = Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes, Gary Grozek

| pub_date = 2009

| name = Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle

| image = File:Out_of_Captivity.png

}}

Out of Captivity, subtitled Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle, is a 2009 book written by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes with the assistance of author Gary Brozek. It narrates the nearly five and a half years they spent in the Colombian jungle as prisoners of the FARC, an insurgent organization, which accused them of being members of the CIA after their plane crashed in a mountainous region on February 13, 2003.

Marc Gonsalves, served in the USAF, Keith Stansell was a Marine, and Tom Howes is a professional pilot. They were civilian contractors working for the U.S. Department of Defense at the time of the accident.