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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 4
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English
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The hostages are young: a bus full of teenagers on a church mission. The ransom demands are explicit: deliver three million dollars--with zero involvement from law enforcement--or all captives will be executed. But rescue specialist Jonathan Grave doesn't believe in ultimatums. For him and his elite team at Security Solutions, it's all about protecting the innocent. Now Grave must face the chilling possibility that someone within the U.S. government...
2) High noon
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Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara, the chief hostage negotiator for the Savannah, Georgia, police department, meets Duncan Swift, a sports bar owner, as they both try to prevent a suicidal bartender Duncan fired from jumping off a roof on St. Patrick's Day. In the aftermath, a romance develops between Phoebe and Duncan, though the enigmatic Phoebe's devotion to career and family, who include a young daughter and an agoraphobic mother, creates tension in...
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Visitation series volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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When Clint Evans takes on the four thugs holding heiress Julie Rose hostage, he isn't thinking about the danger. What's got Clint in a lather is Julie herself.
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Alex Cross novels volume 19
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English
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It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control.
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Jaime Segura, a young immigrant to Britain, takes several hostages at a nursery school and insists that he will only speak to MI6 accountant Ben Whistler, who discovers that the hostage-taking may be connected to a large sum of missing government money.
7) Hunted
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When the chief of police and the mayor of New Orleans are taken hostage by disgraced former co-worker Reed Ware, top hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace allows herself to be taken captive by the handsome Reed only to learn that he is being targeted for his discovery of high-level government corruption.
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English
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The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center -- a women's reproductive health services clinic -- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
9) Crossfire
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Extreme measures volume 2
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English
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"FBI negotiator Julianna James has never lost a hostage--until now. As the death toll rises and the killer's motive becomes clear, Julianna knows anyone she loves will be caught in the crossfire. It will take all her courage, and the help of Former Army Ranger Clay Fox, to bring this negotiation to an end."--
10) Gideon's corpse
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Gideon Crew volume 2
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English
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After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
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Abby Mullen thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult when it literally went down in flames. Years later, she's the NYPD's best hostage negotiator and a mother...Armed conspiracy theorists called the Watchers have attacked the local high school--and taken her daughter hostage...With the delusional Watchers holding her child at gunpoint...the clock is ticking on her daughter's life, and she has no choice but to negotiate with the paranoid group...
13) El negociador
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
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FBI agent Dave Richman takes it upon himself to protect hostage negotiator Kate O'Malley after she is targeted by a terrorist who is trying to set her up to take the blame for blowing up an airplane.
14) Burden of proof
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FBI rapid response (DiAnn Mills) volume 1
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English
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"Reeling from a negotiation gone wrong, FBI Special Agent April Ramos is caught off guard when a frazzled young woman shoves a crying baby into her arms, then disappears. Worry for the child's safety quickly turns to fear when a man claiming to be the girl's father abducts them at gunpoint. April puts her hostage negotiation skills to use to learn more about who she's dealing with: Jason Snyder, a fugitive accused of murder. As Jason spins a tall...
15) Not Russian
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English
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"One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's. The friendship between the two men evolved through periods...
16) Takeover
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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What initially appears to be a bank heist turns into something far more complex and deadly. When forensic scientist Theresa MacLean seizes the opportunity to trade places with the city's best hostage negotiator, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to save the lives of innocent people as well as her own.
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