Recounts the kidnapping of bank vice president Michelle Renee and her young daughter who were taped with explosives and given orders to rob Michelle's own bank or be killed, but the authorities suspected Michelle as orchestrating the crime.
This book is a practical masterpiece.” —Jim Allen, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City; president, International Transactional Analysis Association ...
Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.
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A young girl and her neighbor are kidnapped during a burglary gone awry in this hair-raising and fast-paced thriller from three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts.
The Battle Over the Barnes Collection John Anderson ... on all or part of the manuscript — and gave invaluable advice - include R. W. Apple , Jr. , Geoffrey Precourt , Craig Unger , Loren Feldman , Jon Rizzi , and Robert Friedman .
The book examines the negotiation process from start to finish, including preincident preparations, first response responsibilities, responding to the call-out, arriving at the scene, preparing to negotiate, making contact, preparing for ...
Fourteen-year-old Jamie has second thoughts about harboring a killer whale that his father and he captured off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia and plan to sell to a sea amusement park.
High on that list was Jim Cotter, AKA Inspector Cotter, who ran the National Academy Program. Jim, with the unofficial AKA of “The Dancing Bear” because of his stature and ability to dance around directives from D.C., won the Silver ...
A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book and a poetic celebration of one woman’s resilience.