{"id":2502884,"date":"2026-07-15T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2502884"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:22:49","slug":"us-negotiator-brett-mcgurk-will-release-a-book-on-the-hamas-hostage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/us-negotiator-brett-mcgurk-will-release-a-book-on-the-hamas-hostage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"US negotiator Brett McGurk will release a book on the Hamas hostage crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 A lead U.S. negotiator for the release of hundreds of people captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks<\/a> in Israel will have a book out this fall. <\/p>\n

The Penguin Random House imprint Crown has scheduled Brett McGurk’s \u201cBrink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7 Hostages\u201d for Oct. 6, nearly three years to the day after the deadly Hamas siege that left more than 1,000 people dead and more than 200 taken captive. <\/p>\n

McGurk, 53, is a longtime Middle East adviser and diplomat who had already served under three presidents when he was appointed by President Joe Biden<\/a> in 2023 to oversee hostage talks between Israel and Hamas. According to Crown, McGurk will describe his frantic efforts to balance the competing and seemingly intractable demands of the two sides, traveling worldwide in pursuit of an agreement. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn October 7, Hamas unleashed a devastating war and the largest hostage crisis in modern history,\u201d McGurk said in a statement released Wednesday by Crown. \u201cI wrote \u2018Brink\u2019 to bring readers inside the rooms as events unfolded in real time \u2014 from the Situation Room with hundreds of missiles in the air, to compounds across the Middle East where diplomacy teetered between breakthrough and collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Crown, McGurk will also disclose details of a near-deal before Oct. 7 that would have normalized relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia and will remember his unlikely alliance with President Donald Trump<\/a> appointee Steve Witkoff as they handled talks during the transition time between the administrations of Biden, a Democrat, and Trump, a Republican. The remaining surviving hostages were freed in October 2025. <\/p>\n

\u201c’Brink’ details the bipartisan front they forged when it mattered most, ultimately securing a deal that would save lives,\u201d the publisher’s announcement reads in part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wsls.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 A lead U.S. negotiator for the release of hundreds of people captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel will have a book out this fall. The Penguin Random House imprint Crown has scheduled Brett McGurk’s \u201cBrink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7 Hostages\u201d for Oct. 6, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[493230,21796,22389,21741,21888,419590,367254,22814],"class_list":["post-2502884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-brett-mcgurk","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-biden","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US-negotiator-Brett-McGurk-will-release-a-book-on-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502886,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502884\/revisions\/2502886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}