Taken Hostage Stories And Strategies

Author : Larry Busch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514489368
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies written by Larry Busch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a former hostage negotiator, Taken Hostage provides specific daily behavioral, situational, and long-term psychological strategies used successfully by hostages who survived months and years of mental and physical torture by terrorists, religious extremists, and criminal gangs. The book describes in detail the five stages of a hostage taking. Whether taken hostage for ransom, political leverage, or as a human shield, the book suggests what treatment the hostage can expect during each stage and how to best counter them. Taken Hostage describes how a hostage can moderate the physical and mental effects caused by physical tortures such as binding, suspension, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault and against mental tortures such as social deprivation, false executions, and brainwashing. The book identifies the mental hazards of depression, suicide, and barbed-wire psychosis and how to combat them. Particular strategies such as passive compliance and humanizing will instruct the hostage on how to apply recognized psychological strategies to the hostages advantage, and as such, play a more active role in their day-to-day physical treatment and sustain positive mental health. The book stresses safer travel planning as the most important strategy against being kidnapped in the first place. It details hotel security, insider accomplices, finding the right hotel and the right taxi, and how to use countersurveillance techniques to identify and thwart a potential kidnapping. The book coaches the hostages family and employers back home how to effectively manage the media and one another, thereby reducing the incidence of hostage and family PTSD and reintegrating a changed person back into their changed family. The detailed survival strategies will inspire a hostages will to live and sustain a familys hope. It is written for domestic and international travelers, UN and NGO volunteers, military personnel, and anyone in harms way.

Author : Anja Shortland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192547518
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kidnap written by Anja Shortland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

Author : George Kohlrieser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118047117
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hostage at the Table written by George Kohlrieser and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kohlrieser—an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator—explains that it is only by openly facing conflict that we can truly progress through the most difficult business challenges. In this provocative book, he reveals how the proven techniques and psychological insights used in hostage negotiation can be applied successfully to any personal or business relationship. Step by step, he outlines the seven key factors that anyone can use to remove the blocks that stand in the way of resolving tough problems and shows how business leaders, in particular, can develop and access the skills they need to create trust and a positive mind-set in their companies.

Author : K. J. Howe
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472240332
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freedom Broker written by K. J. Howe and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the Best First Novel 2018 Award at the International Thriller Writers Awards. The first in a brand new series featuring Thea Paris, a kidnap and ransom specialist. Lee Child calls THE FREEDOM BROKER a 'superb thriller', Lisa Gardner says it's 'clever and gritty' and Peter James calls it 'spellbinding'. If you like the thrillers of James Patterson and Lee Child, or are a fan of Jason Bourne, you will love this. At eight years old, Thea Paris watched her brother being snatched from his bed. Her inability to save him has haunted both their lives ever since. Twenty years later, the unthinkable happens when her billionaire father is abducted. But this time, she is prepared. Now, Thea is at the top of her game as a freedom broker, negotiating for the release of kidnap victims around the world. And she has only one objective: Find him or die trying...

Author : Jessica Buchanan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476725160
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Odds written by Jessica Buchanan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.

Author : Katie Kawa
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 150814379X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hostage Negotiators written by Katie Kawa and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hostage negotiators have a difficult job that’s fascinating to learn about. Readers discover what these brave men and women do in order to safely diffuse hostage situations. They also discover the special skills and training needed to pursue this career path. Important facts about hostage negotiators are presented through accessible main text, fact boxes, and a helpful graphic organizer. Full-color photographs bring readers into the thrilling world of hostage negotiators. Readers will also be captivated by harrowing stories of real hostage negotiations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.

Author : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue Mission Report written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Renee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781101096369
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Hostage written by Michelle Renee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leroy Thompson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1853676616
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hostage Rescue Manual written by Leroy Thompson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2005-01-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.