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

Author: Daniel Paisner

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/15/2006


Synopsis

No ordinary Washington memoir, Facing Down Evil is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. As the FBI's premier hostage negotiator, Clint Van Zandt worked or consulted on some of recent U.S. history's most unsettling and high-profile conflicts, including the Waco, Oklahoma City, and Unabomber cases.

About Daniel Paisner

Daniel Paisner is one of the busiest collaborators in publishing. He has helped to write dozens of bestselling and headline-making books with prominent entertainers, athletes, business leaders, and politicians. He has worked with Whoopi Goldberg, Anthony Quinn, Geraldo Rivera, New York governor George Pataki, former New York mayor Ed Koch, and FDNY battalion commander Richard Picciotto, whose account of his epic tour of duty on September 11, 2001, Last Man Down, became an international bestseller.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on April 08, 2017

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

Goodreads review by The other Sandy on April 02, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Bobbey on January 15, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Huguette on August 15, 2020

about hostage negotiation,......more