The First Hostage

• Author : Joel C. Rosenberg
• Publisher : NavPress
• Release : 29 December 2015

Book 2 in the bestselling 3-book international political thriller series that has sold over 475,000 copies! “One of the most entertaining and intriguing authors of international political thrillers in the country. . . . His novels are un-put-downable!” —Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, Forbes magazine The president of the United States is missing. Three years before Clinton and Patterson, another New York Times bestselling author of thirteen international thrillers, Joel C. Rosenberg, posed this chilling scenario: What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in

• Author : Joel C. Rosenberg
• Publisher : NavPress
• Release : 03 October 2017

The complete 3-book international political thriller series that has sold over 475,000 copies! “One of the most entertaining and intriguing authors of international political thrillers in the country. . . . His novels are un-put-downable!” —Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, Forbes magazine “Guaranteed sleep loss for the reader of this can’t-put-down novel.” —World magazine This product bundles three of Joel Rosenberg’s blockbuster thrillers featuring J. B. Collins together into one e-book. The Third Target When New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins hears

• Author : Dejan Lukic
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 14 March 2013

Gripping exposé of the act of hostage-taking, and of being a hostage, in the spheres of war and terrorism in post-communist geographies of global Islam.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1980

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : Abraham Miller
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 July 2019

How effective are the methods currently used to deal with hostage situations? This study attempts to answer that question by examining the ways in which terrorists manipulate the hostage/ barricade tactic—one of the most formidable and frightening devices in their arsenal—and by analyzing the response of law enforcement officers and policymakers to its use. Drawing on case materials and interviews with high-level decision makers, both in the United States and abroad, who are involved with domestic and international

• Author : Thomas Strentz
• Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
• Release : 01 March 2013

The focus of this book is on dealing with hostage and crisis negotiations and how this can be successfully accomplished in order to save lives. Typically, those encountered by correctional and law enforcement crisis negotiators fall into one of three broad categories: The Bad, the Mad, and the Sad – or, those with antisocial personality disorder; those who are severely mentally ill, insane or psychotic; or those who are contemplating suicide, respectively. This book outlines tactics and procedures for dealing with

• Author : Victoria Bruce,Karin Hayes,Jorge Enrique Botero
• Publisher : Knopf
• Release : 10 August 2010

A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Who exactly are the FARC? How had

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1975

• Author : Hugh Mallory Falconer
• Publisher : Pen and Sword
• Release : 30 March 2018

I remember very clearly the day on which I was supposed to dieSo starts the story of Squadron Leader Hugh Mallory Falconer, British Special Operations Executive agent and prisoner of the Nazis for over two and a half grueling years.When he was caught out of uniform by the Gestapo in Tunisia not long after the culmination of Operation Torch in 1942, he had no right to expect anything but the worst. Quite miraculously however, his papers vanished whilst he was

• Author : Laura La Bella
• Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
• Release : 15 December 2013

Crisis managers and hostage negotiators manage dangerous situations that can mean the difference between life or death. This career guide provides all the information necessary for young people to determine if they have the physical, emotional, and psychological skills necessary to be an effective crisis manager or hostage negotiator. It also includes clear and concise tips for the best programs to enter, the courses to take, the entry-level jobs to pursue, and the networking opportunities to seize. The career preparedness

• Author : Cassie Miles
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 15 July 2011

CAPTIVE HEARTS From hostages to prisoners of passion— Held at gunpoint in a mysterious crime, three women are soon bound by desire to the men sworn to protect them at all costs…. Carrie Lamb thought nothing could be worse than being held hostage—until she began falling for her captor! Ryan Dallas rescued Carrie, only to take her prisoner himself—and the man's hard body and sexy smile were giving her ideas no captive should have. Ryan claimed he was

• Author : David Patrick Houghton
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 21 May 2001

Why did a handful of Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979? Why did most members of the US government initially believe that the incident would be over quickly? Why did the Carter administration then decide to launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis examines these puzzles and others, using an analogical reasoning approach to decision-making, a theoretical perspective which highlights the role played by

• Author : Leroy Thompson
• Publisher : Pen and Sword
• Release : 08 January 2005

The Hostage Rescue Manual is a comprehensive, illustrated source on the dynamic operations which have saved hundreds of lives in hostage situations around the world. It is based on strategies that have proved successful in numerous incidents, including the landmark SAS rescue at Prince's Gate, London, and is compiled by an author with intimate and practical knowledge of the field.

• Author : John B. Dunlop
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 16 January 2006

This volume contains by far the most complete reports available in English concerning two major terrorist incidents in Russia: the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater at Dubrovka and the September 2004 taking of a large school in Beslan in southern Russia. The issues examined are as follows:- the backgrounds of the Muslim extremists who carried out these acts including the de facto leaders of the terrorist assaults, ethnic Chechen Ruslan Elmurzaev and Ingush Ruslan Khuchbarov;- the failure of