Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

Pretty good book. The cases were interesting and the author developed some of the most important guidelines to approaching violent people in siege situations. Unfortunately, the middle of the book is spent almost entirely bemoaning the incompetence of a group of influential but ill-advised “rambos”, leading, tragically and predictably, to loss of lives. A little less repetition on that point might have sufficed.