In the space of 32 hours, the children of six billionaires are taken off the streets of London in a well-planned kidnapping. The perpetrators demand GBP25 million per hostage. For 'expenses'. Not rans
A maniacal killer is on the loose and the SWAT team is charged with finding him and his hostage--a former love interest.Danny Weaver, SWAT's newly assigned medic, has just completed a grueling three w
Tsukasa insists on seeing that Oryo is cared for at a hospital, defying Anzai's wish that she stay hidden at their safe house. Before she can even make it inside the hospital, Tsukasa is taken hostage
OUTWIT - AND OUTLASTFujimaru's attempt to capture the traitorous THIRD-i member Hosho resulted in the capture of his sister and best friend. With his loved ones held hostage, Fuimaru has no choice but
Rich and Jade Chance are once again on the runN this time while their father is away. After a breathless chase through an amusement park, Jade is taken hostage by a man from ChanceOs past who is plott
A frustrated wife makes use of an enterprising illegal-gun salesman to hold her husband hostage; two hapless adult-education students botch their attempts at rudimentary piano but succeed in a haltin
Ten years ago CSI Darby McCormick investigated a child abduction case. Today, the missing child - Charlie Rizzo - is back from the dead and holding his family hostage. His only demand: bring me Darby
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iraq-Iran war.
改編自暢銷諜報作家Olen Steinhauer的同名小說，由克里斯．潘恩(Chris Pind)及譚蒂．紐頓(Thandiwe Newton)主演電影《All the Old Knives》，即將在2022年四月登上亞馬遜影音平台。六年前一樁恐怖攻擊，因情報特工的洩密導致百人喪命。當時同為特工的情侶也因此分道揚鑣。如今回首各種蛛絲馬跡，追查究竟誰是叛徒。All the Old Knives is soon to be a movie starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton, streaming on Amazon. Tentatively scheduled for release in April 2022, the screenplay was written by the book's author, Olen Steinhauer.Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took more than a hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went terribly wrong. The CIA’s Vienna station gathered intel during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground and from an agent on the inside. So when it all went wrong, the question had to be asked: Had their agent been compromised, and how?Two of the CIA’s case officers in Vienna, Henry Pelham and Celia Harrison, were lovers at the time, and on the night of the hostage crisis Celia decided she’d had enough. She left the agency, married and had children, and now lives in idyllic Carmel-by-the
This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes. Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two o
This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes. Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two o
The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions across the Taiwan Strait. This book is t
