Facing Down Evil
Life on the Edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

About 20% in I almost gave up because the author sounded really full of himself. Since that seems like a really inconvenient trait to have as a hostage negotiator, I hope that it's just the way the book is written. That said, at the end he still sounded like an arrogant pompous boastful man, which wa......more

The case studies of the hostage negotiations were interesting for the psychology that goes into talking someone into doing something that (a) he doesn't want to do, and (b) is not to his benefit. However, there weren't nearly enough of them to save this book. Much of the book was very repetitive as t......more

This has been on my TBR list for several years and I'm glad I made the time to listen to it. I was hesitant after reading some other reviews, but I actually enjoyed the book. It was interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look at some pretty major hostage negotiation cases that I was only aware of fr......more

about hostage negotiation,......more