The Hostage

Author : Clare Mackintosh
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728245539

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Hostage by Clare Mackintosh Pdf

"Feels like a blockbuster movie."—Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone "Mackintosh is a pro...the final scene in the book almost made me sick as I read it. I mean that as a compliment of the highest order."—The New York Times You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most... From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: "The following instructions will save your daughter's life..." Someone needs Mina's assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply. When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers...or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home? It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours. For fans of the locked-room mystery of One by One and the heart-stopping tension The Last Flight, Hostage is an explosively addictive thriller about one flight attendant and the agonizing decision that will change her life—and the lives of everyone on-board—forever. Praise for Hostage: "A banger of a book with a truly agonizing 'what would you do?'" —Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by One "Hypnotically good. Should be a hit, could be a classic..." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series "Fiendishly clever." —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared "A propulsive read." —Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife "A nail-biter of a thriller." —Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515142409

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The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin Pdf

W. E. B. Griffin’s #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this action-packed thriller. U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of that diplomat’s wife. With the woman’s children and family now at risk, Castillo’s running out of time to uncover the connections and truth behind it all. Amidst threats, murder, and a scandal tying the United Nations to Iraq, there is also a lot of money flying around—and some people will do anything it takes to get their hands on it...

Author : Willo Davis Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481457903

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Hostage by Willo Davis Roberts Pdf

A young girl and her neighbor are kidnapped during a burglary gone awry in this hair-raising and fast-paced thriller from three-time Edgar Award–winning author Willo Davis Roberts. Sixth-grader Kaci Drummond longs for excitement and to be noticed just as her sister Jodie is for dancing, or her brother Jeff is for playing the piano. Shortly after her family moves to a new house, Kaci returns home in the middle of the school day and stumbles upon a burglary. The robbers kidnap her, and when a nosy neighbor suspects that something is wrong and tries to help, they take her as well. Kaci quickly discovers that the elderly woman not only has some good ideas, but also helps them both keep up their courage. Can the two hostages band together to escape their captors?

Author : George Kohlrieser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118047118

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Hostage at the Table by George Kohlrieser Pdf

George Kohlrieser—an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator—explains that it is only by openly facing conflict that we can truly progress through the most difficult business challenges. In this provocative book, he reveals how the proven techniques and psychological insights used in hostage negotiation can be applied successfully to any personal or business relationship. Step by step, he outlines the seven key factors that anyone can use to remove the blocks that stand in the way of resolving tough problems and shows how business leaders, in particular, can develop and access the skills they need to create trust and a positive mind-set in their companies.

Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1911214446

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Hostage by Guy Delisle Pdf

HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andre was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts Andre's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation. Marking a departure from the author's celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted colour washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.

Author : Bruce S. McEwen,Harold Marshall Schmeck (Jr.)
Publisher : Rockefeller Univ. Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0874700566

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The Hostage Brain by Bruce S. McEwen,Harold Marshall Schmeck (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Alan Gorevan
Publisher : Alan Gorevan
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780463027110

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The Hostage by Alan Gorevan Pdf

Lindsey O'Reilly is at home, cleaning up after dinner, when she sees armed police swarming over her garden wall. There's a noise downstairs. A knock on the door. She opens up, but it's not the police. It's the man they're chasing. A stone-cold killer. Now he's inside...

Author : Alex Kropp
Publisher : High Interest Publishing Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1926847296

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Hostage by Alex Kropp Pdf

12-16 yrs.

Author : James Justinian Morier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : English fiction
ISBN : CHI:087931062

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Zohrab, the Hostage by James Justinian Morier Pdf

Author : Darren Franklin,Martin Phillips
Publisher : Pen and Sword True Crime
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781526761538

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The Hostage Rescuer by Darren Franklin,Martin Phillips Pdf

The gripping true crime story of a child abducted by his father from his mother, and the international race to rescue him against dangerous odds. Two close encounters with death convince Darren Franklin that his career in global private security is not the healthiest. Meanwhile Scottish nurse Diane is on a life-changing journey of her own after a Shirley Valentine-style romance on a Greek holiday island. As she moves to Australia to marry her Greek lover and start a family, Darren escapes a contract on his life and teams up with a former British special forces operative to get into the business of rescuing abducted children. Then Darren’s and Diane’s paths cross. After Diane’s marriage breaks down, her ex takes their four-year-old son Theo back to the Greek islands, and, when all attempts to get her son back via the courts have failed, Darren’s company is called in to get him back. As Diane waits anxiously in the wings, Darren and his small team must contend with hostile locals, double-crossing police, and dubious legal contacts to conduct surveillance on their target, formulate a plan, and grab the boy before making their hazardous escape. They can trust no one. A whole island community is against them, they have their suspicions about their own lawyer, and the charity go-between on their team is actively leaking details of their plans, risking their mission, and possibly their lives. Set against an epidemic of parental abductions, and a background of frequent failed recoveries, the action swings from Britain to South America to Australia, to the USA and the Greek Islands on a dramatic, emotional roller coaster from start to finish.

Author : James Justinian MORIER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019059383

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Zohrab the hostage ... Second edition, revised and corrected. By James J. Morier by James Justinian MORIER Pdf

Author : Zayd Muṭīʻ Dammāj
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002539267

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The Hostage by Zayd Muṭīʻ Dammāj Pdf

A REISSUED CLASSIC BY YEMEN'S ACCLAIMED LITERARY VOICE

Author : Robert Crais
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984818737

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Hostage by Robert Crais Pdf

The bestselling author of Demolition Angel and L.A. Requiem returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet. As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. Hostage proves his earlier success was no fluke. It’s an unstoppable read. An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun. The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all. Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.

Author : Jane Yolen,Adam Stemple
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101602430

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The Hostage Prince by Jane Yolen,Adam Stemple Pdf

Terrifying monsters, daring escapes and a kingdom on the verge of war… Unlikely companions Snail and Prince Aspen find themselves thrown together on the adventure of a lifetime. Due to a series of misunderstandings, they end up on the run, having adventure after mishap after scary, thrilling escape. When they reach Aspen's kingdom, they learn to their horror that their actions have divided the country and plunged it into violence. Every minute counts: it is time for Snail and Aspen to figure out a way to stop the building war—together. The Hostage Prince is a fast-paced, funny, exciting fantasy novel for young readers. And who better to start tweens on their journey than Jane Yolen (“America's Hans Christian Andersen”—Time) and her son, Adam Stemple!

Author : Leora N. Rosen,Michelle Etlin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Current Events
ISBN : 0253116066

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The Hostage Child by Leora N. Rosen,Michelle Etlin Pdf

"This cogently-argued book is a timely contribution to the general literature on child sexual abuse." -- British Journal of Social Work "[The authors] have gathered information on 206 cases and focus on five representative examples that illustrate what they see as an increasing anti-mother bias in the courts. These five cases of the failure to safeguard children are... effective... Whatever may have happened in the past, the authors make a well-researched, convincing... case that the pendulum has now swung the other way. Now many lawyers, child advocates, psychologists and judges accept a 'crazy mother' or 'vindictive ex-' syndrome, thus allowing real perpetrators to continue abuse with no supervision.... In these cases, judges acquiesce to a paternalistic myth of the American family and in so doing, ignore the reality of American children." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A needed assessment of a terrible problem." -- Booklist "... provocative... " -- Library Journal "Recommended." -- Choice "Without anger, or hysteria, Rosen and Etlin document the interlocking, complex ways in which our antiquated system fails incested children and those who struggle to protect them. Just as important, they propose an innovative solution. This is 'must' reading for anyone interested in the problem of child sexual abuse." -- Elizabeth Morgan, M.D., Ph.D. It is comfortable to believe that incest and child sexual abuse need not concern us because we have institutions set up to deal with these problems. This book disallows that comfort and shows that the system has failed, and worse -- that it has generated a dangerous atmosphere of denial and cover-up. While Rosen and Etlin expose a system whose breakdown is shocking and fundamental, at the same time they present a proposal for relief for the children who are now trapped -- like hostages -- in this social war.