The negotiator : my life at the heart of the hostage trade / Ben Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Ben

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lopez, Ben.

Consultants--Biography.

Consultants.

Kidnapping.

Ransom.

Hostage negotiations.

Kidnapping--Case studies.

Ransom--Case studies.

Hostage negotiations--Case studies.

Genre:

Biographies.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2011]

Summary:

Ben Lopez spends his life traveling the world, bartering with people who value money over life. Working for governments, law enforcement agencies, multinational corporations and private clients, Ben is an expert K & R (Kidnap and Ransom) consultant, supplying professional kidnap-negotiation services. He can be called out to anywhere in the world within twenty-four-hour notice to set up and command the negotiator's cell, bargaining with religious fanatics, hardened criminals, and other desperate people in order to save the lives of their captives. Alongside a shadowy team of former spies and special operatives, his arsenal of psychological techniques is just as powerful as brute force. He'll spend as long as is necessary to get the job done. And then he'll disappear.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Kidnap for ransom : a snapshot

Part One : End Game. The package

Part Two : The Business. Ribber chicken

Cold call

Thye longest walk

Part Three : Drop Zone. Initial action

Good money after bad

Subterfuge

Shepard's prayer

Part Four : The New Wave. Last resort

The emperor's clothes

Part Five : Bad Blood. Under seige

The cell

Soldier of Jah

Breakthrough

Jaw-jaw

Want you back

High-value target

The coven

Part Six : Pirates. The wolf

The cycle.

Notes:

"A Herman Graf book."

"First published in the United Kingdom by Sphere"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781616088620

1616088621

OCLC:

808244764

Publisher Number:

90104330320