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The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Amazing book about the Kidnap and Ransom insurance industry, government policies around paying ransom, and how to achieve the best outcomes for both individual hostage situations and policies overall. As I've lived/worked in high-kidnap-risk environments, this is interesting to me. (My solution in wa......more

People have been taking hostages and holding them for ransom for millennia, but in the twenty-first century it has become both a high-profile political tactic and big business. Joel Simon, the head of an organization called the Committee to Protect Journalists, got involved when the Islamic State st......more

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I am doing a bit of research into kidnapping for a writing project. This book was very insightful and the interviews of law enforcement officers, victims of kidnapping and their families are quite informative.........more