Held For Ransom

Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263396

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Ransom by Lois Duncan Pdf

Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something’s wrong: “[A] gripping thriller.” —Publishers Weekly Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver to the last stop of the day—but the strange substitute driver keeps driving. Soon the five teenagers are hostages deep in the mountains. Their kidnappers demand stacks of money from their families, even though most of the students aren’t as well off as the abductors assume. Without hope of raising the ransom money, the five teens must find a way out or face terrifying consequences. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Anthony Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Kidnapping
ISBN : OCLC:1244791675

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Held to Ransom by Anthony Masters Pdf

Author : Joel Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0999745425

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We Want to Negotiate by Joel Simon Pdf

"A wise and thorough investigation." - Lawrence Wright, author ofThe Looming Tower andThe Terror Years Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then an Italian, a German, and a Dane. In August 2014, the Islamic State began executing the Americans -- including journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, followed by the British hostages. Joel Simon, who in nearly two decades at the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked on dozens of hostages cases, delves into the heated hostage policy debate. The Europeans paid millions of dollars to a terrorist group to free their hostages. The US and the UK refused to do so, arguing that any ransom would be used to fuel terrorism and would make the crime more attractive, increasing the risk to their citizens.We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?

Author : Puk Damsgard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681774725

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The ISIS Hostage by Puk Damsgard Pdf

In a tense and riveting narrative, The ISIS Hostage details freelance photographer Daniel Rye's 13-month ordeal at the hands of the Islamic State after he was captured in Syria, and the misery inflicted upon him, and 19 other hostages, by their guards.This compelling account also follows Daniel's family and the nerve-wracking negotiations with his kidnappers. It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas, and offers a rare glimpse into the secret world of the investigation launched to locate and free not only Daniel, but also the American freelance journalist and fellow hostage James Foley.Written with Daniel's full cooperation and based on interviews with former fellow prisoners, jihadists, and key figures who worked behind the scenes to secure his release, The ISIS Hostage reveals for the first time the torment suffered by the captives and tells a moving and terrifying story of friendship, torture, and survival.

Author : Michelle Gagnon
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426874375

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Kidnap & Ransom by Michelle Gagnon Pdf

When the world's foremost kidnap and ransom negotiator is snatched by a ruthless drug cartel, Jake Riley becomes ensnared in the effort to save him. But he's up against Los Zetas, an elite paramilitary organization renowned for its ferocity and skill. Now he and his colleagues must navigate the dark underbelly of Mexico, from raging street wars to perilous jungles, in an effort to rescue him before time runs out. After nearly losing her life on her last case, FBI Agent Kelly Jones may never do fieldwork again. Determined to regain her confidence, she joins Jake on his mission—and quickly realizes she's in over her head. Then in the slums of Mexico City, she encounters a former nemesis who's enacting a nightmarish ritual on the weak and vulnerable. Now she has one last, desperate shot to prove herself—by taking down a killer.

Author : Nigel Brennan,Nicole Bonney,Kellie Brennan
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143567332

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The Price of Life by Nigel Brennan,Nicole Bonney,Kellie Brennan Pdf

"Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang that puts a price of US$3 million on their heads. If not paid, they will be killed. And the Australian government does not pay ransoms."--Back cover.

Author : Richard P. Wright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040082201

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Kidnap for Ransom by Richard P. Wright Pdf

The enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement‘s inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this plague is growing. Kidnap for Ransom: Resolving the Unthinkable removes the veil of mystery and dispels

Author : Adam J. Kosto
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199651702

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Hostages in the Middle Ages by Adam J. Kosto Pdf

Examines the changing situations in which hostages were used in the Europe and the Mediterranean world from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, touching on a wide range of topics in military, diplomatic, political, social, gender, economic, and legal history.

Author : Russell Atkinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147019886X

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Held for Ransom by Russell Atkinson Pdf

FBI agent Cliff Knowles investigates a kidnapping, but the report of the crime seems suspicious. Was there really a kidnapping? And, if so, can Agent Knowles rescue the victim in time?

Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451651720

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A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett Pdf

BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Author : Joycelyn M. Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317226840

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Criminal Law by Joycelyn M. Pollock Pdf

Criminal Law, Eleventh Edition, a classic introduction to criminal law for criminal justice students, combines the best features of a casebook and a textbook. Its success over numerous editions, both at community colleges as well as in four-year college criminal justice programs, is proof this text works as an authoritative source on criminal law as well as a teaching text that communicates with students. The book covers substantive criminal law and explores its principles, sources, distinctions, and limitations. Definitions and elements of crimes are explained, and defenses to crimes are thoroughly analyzed. Each chapter offers guidance to help students understand what is important, including chapter outlines, key terms, learning objectives, Legal News boxes that highlight current criminal law issues, and Quick Checks that cue the reader to stop and answer a question or two concerning the material just covered. Unique Exploring Case Law boxes offer guidance in using the accompanying cases, which are provided on the book’s website. A robust collection of instructor support materials addresses teaching and learning issues

Author : Lorinda Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501143151

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One Day Closer by Lorinda Stewart Pdf

An instant national bestseller and "a beautiful story of what love can do to conquer the impossible" (Jann Arden). On the day my daughter was kidnapped by outlaws in Somalia, my life split into two parts: Before and After. This is the story of both parts, and of how I fought to bring my daughter home. On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout, Lorinda Stewart’s daughter, is kidnapped outside of Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand is simple: pay $2.5 million or Amanda will be killed. For the next 460 days, Lorinda does everything in her power—and beyond—to get her daughter back alive. This brave, small-town mother with no experience in hostage negotiations is called upon by the RCMP to be the lead communicator with Adam, the Somali who identifies himself as the English-speaking negotiator for Amanda's kidnappers. In a secret “war room” in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Lorinda joins forces with federal officers and begins to answer calls from Adam, establishing a fragile rapport of trust with the man who holds her daughter’s fate in his hands. She learns how to demand POLs—proofs of life—from Amanda’s hostage takers and even how to react to “bad calls”—when she is forced to listen to her daughter’s desperate cries for help, fearing she is being abused and tortured. What’s supposed to be a short negotiation stretches on, and weeks become months. Lorinda finds herself increasingly on her own as negotiations break down. But she never gives up hope, even as the conversations become more traumatic. Faced with the terrible possibility of her daughter’s death, she decides to take control, bringing in private hostage negotiators and fundraising ransom money from donors. But will it be enough? This is the true story of one woman’s heroic perseverance in the face of despair, and of the hope and healing to be found beyond trauma. It is also, in the end, a tribute to the extraordinary power of a mother’s love.

Author : Barbara Leonie Picard
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781589880436

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Ransom for a Knight by Barbara Leonie Picard Pdf

In early 14th-century England, young Alys de Renneville, unable to persuade any of her relatives that her father and brother are alive and being held for ransom in Scotland, determines to rescue them herself and, together with the fourteen-year-old servant boy Hugh, sets out on the perilous journey north.

Author : Edeet Ravel
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554514656

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Held by Edeet Ravel Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Chloe’s summer vacation in Greece comes to an abrupt end when she is suddenly bound, gagged and whisked away to an unidentified location. Waking up from a drug-induced sleep, she finds herself in a squalid warehouse. Chloe can only imagine the worst. After several days of total isolation and utter despair, Chloe faces a new threat when her kidnapper appears, but she also feels a sense of relief. His revelation that she is being held as ransom for a prisoner exchange, however, does little to allay her fears. The weeks pass and, haunted by terrifying dreams and with only her thoughts to keep her company, Chloe fights to remain calm in an impossible situation. At least her kidnapper, although cold and distant, visits frequently, often bringing gifts. Before long, Chloe begins to have feelings for him that take her by surprise. Though still fearing for her safety, she now fantasizes about a life together. And is it her imagination, or does her captor share those feelings? Even when she is finally released, Chloe vows to protect her captor at any cost. This powerful psychological thriller, written by renowned novelist Edeet Ravel, leaves readers wondering at every suspenseful turn: Is Chloe experiencing Stockholm syndrome?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3063851

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United States Support for Counter-narcotics Activities in the Andean Ridge and Neighboring Countries and the Impact of Narcotrafficking on the Stability of the Region by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf