Description A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage.
Botting pulls no punches with this gritty, detailed, and often humorous insider\'s account of life at the end of a gun as an FBI hostage negotiator..
He chillingly recounts a number of times when death seemed inevitable, only to come through unscathed.
He reviews the successes and the times the FBI fell short.
In Bullets, Bombs, and Fast Talk: Twenty-Five Years of FBI War Stories, Botting vividly describes these events and more as only a participant can.
Botting was involved every step of the way.
Along the way hostage negotiation techniques evolved, changing from play-it-by-ear and shoot-from-the-hip to a carefully choreographed psychological game of life and death.
From Ruby Ridge to Waco, Patty Hearst to Rodney King, and Wounded Knee to TWA 847, Botting was there and on the spot.
He found himself involved--sometimes peripherally, more often personally--in many of the FBI\'s most famous events since the 1970s.
James Botting faced these challenges and daily pressures during a fascinating and demanding twenty-five-year career as an FBI hostage negotiator.
How do you react? What do you do? What do you say? Your words, your actions can save lives--or lose them.
Prisoners riot, threatening the lives of prison officers and hundreds of other inmates.
A baby disappears; his only trace is an ominous ransom call to his parents.
A neo-Nazi militant in a cabin hideout keeps federal agents at bay with gunfire.
A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers.
Description A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage
