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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. 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....

Three escaped convicts take eight deaf girls and their teachers hostage.

Max Bhagat never told Gina Vitagliano he loved her, and now it might be too late. From the moment FBI negotiator Max first met Gina on a plane hijacked by terrorists, she left his orderly, workcentric world shaken and stirred. Their ensuing hot (then cold) romance finally ends when Gina becomes fed up. The last Max hears is that Gina is volunteering for a AIDS group in Kenya, so when he learns that she has been killed in a terrorist bombing in Germany,...

"The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis-and media circus-that would...

Attracted to a talented police lieutenant who serves as Savannah's top hostage negotiator, a businessman endeavors to become a part of her solitary life in both her personal and professional arenas

La crónica de un secuestro real, magistralmente retratado por Gabriel García Márquez. Ahora una serie en Prime Video, protagonizada por Cristina Umaña, Juan Pablo Raba, Majida Issa, Carmenza Gómez, Julieth Restrepo, Nydia Quintero y más. En 1990, temiendo la extradición a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar, cabecilla del cartel de Medellín, secuestró a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel...

"In this taut new suspense series featuring NYPD detective Gemma Capello and her close-knit law enforcement family, a madman brings a halt to the heart of the city that never sleeps ... After her mother's death during a bank robbery when she was a child, Gemma Capello grew up to become one of the NYPD's elite hostage negotiators. In a family of cops, there's rarely a day when a Capello isn't facing down some form of threat. Still, despite their unpredictable...

A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.

An ambitious female television reporter gets caught up in a deadly hostage drama while investigating the kidnapping of a Texas millionaire's daughter.

Five years ago, Keelyn Blake's stepfather took her family hostage, raving about Lucent, a being who forced him to commit unspeakable acts. Some of the family made it out alive, the rest did not. Even Lee Watson, the best of the FBI's hostage negotiators, failed to overcome the man's delusions and end the standoff peacefully. Now Lucent is back, and he's no hallucination