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Life on the edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Putnam
September 2006
288 pages ISBN: 039915308X EAN: 9780399153082 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
With more than twenty-five years of service in the FBI,
Clint Van Zandt, one of the seminal figures in the formation
of the FBI's Hostage Negotiation Program, has been party to
such unsettling and high-profile conflicts as the Waco
siege, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Unabomber case.
His expertise-both as a crisis negotiator and as an FBI
insider-has, since his retirement from the FBI, made him a
fixture in the media; since his retirement from the FBI, he
has been called upon more than three thousand times to
provide insight and analysis when high-profile hostage
situations arise. In Facing Down Evil Van Zandt recounts his
most memorable cases-some televised in every living room
across the country, and many others that took place beneath
the radar of all but those individuals involved whose lives
were permanently altered. From blue-collar beginnings in the Midwest, Clinton Van
Zandt fulfilled his childhood dream when he took an
entry-level job in the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a
clerk in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, eventually playing a leading
roll in the FBI's groundbreaking work in hostage
negotiation. In the years that followed, Agent Van Zandt
rose through the ranks, helping to form the FBI's Hostage
rose through the ranks, helping to form the FBI's Hostage
Negotiation and Behavioral Science Program, where he would
encounter madmen like Timothy McVeigh, David Koresh, and Ted
Kaczynski. Van Zandt draws the reader into his private world of hostage
negotiations, taking us inside the criminal mind, the
impossibly high-stress situations, the ticking of the clock
before SWAT is brought in, the art of calling a
hostage-taker's bluff, and the despair over a botched
operation or a nonnegotiable situation. It is both a
gripping page-turner and a thoughtful examination of our
nation's most powerful law enforcement agency through the
eyes of someone on the front line of many of the FBI's most
famous and infamous cases.
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Re: Facing Down Evil
GREAT book, Clint! I normally am not a 'reader', I'm a 'look things up' kind of girl, but WOW, it's like you are right in front of me talking with me :D. I can almost hear your voice telling me stories. THANKS, Clint! (Tina Woodruff 9:58am January 17, 2011)
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