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Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner

3.0

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Inside look at FBI hostage negotiations from the man who was first to run the bureau’s Crisis Negotiation Unit. Besides learning about specific hostage situations, he gives a very thoughtful analysis of why working for a peaceful resolution through talking and other strategies works better than relying on brute force alone. He uses his centerpiece story, what went wrong in the Waco disaster, to make his point, and I think does so very effectively.