Bullets, bombs, and fast talk
Subtitle: twenty-five years of FBI war stories
By: James Botting.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781597972444
Subjects: Botting, James; United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Biography; Hostage negotiations -- United States; Police -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers. A neo-Nazi militant in a cabin hideout keeps federal agents at bay with gunfire. A baby disappears; his only trace is an ominous ransom call to his parents. Prisoners riot, threatening the lives of prison officers and hundreds of other inmates. How do you react? What do you do? What do you say? Your words, your actions can save lives -- or lose them. James Botting faced these challenges and daily pressures during a fascinating and demanding twenty-five-year career as an FBI hostage negotiator. He found himself involved -- sometimes peripherally, more often personally -- in many of the FBI's most famous events since the 1970s. From Ruby Ridge to Waco, Patty Hearst to Rodney King, and Wounded Knee to TWA 847, Botting was there and on the spot. 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. Botting was involved every step of the way. 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. He reviews the successes and the times the FBI fell short. He chillingly recounts a number of times when death seemed inevitable, only to come through unscathed. 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. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Just a goddam Yankee; title: The republic of new Afrika; title: Wounded Knee revisited; title: Patty Hearst and the S.L.A; title: Wannabe skyjacker; title: Year of the gun; title: Robert Mathews and the order; title: Birth of the crisis incident negotiation team; title: Kidnapping in Palos Verdes; title: The Cuban prison riots; title: Harvey Lee Green and the tri-lateral commission; title: Rodney King and the L.A. riots; title: Ruby Ridge; title: Waco; title: The baker of Rancho Cucamonga; title: The LAX hotel jumper; title: The South Gate kidnapping and the Juarez Cartel; title: The psychedelic shower.