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How To Deliver A Ransom: Learn the secrets behind the Kidnap for Ransom business

by Rob Phayre

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A practical look at ransom negotiations and delivery

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A practical look at ransom negotiations and delivery

Drawing on case studies, anecdotes, scenarios and dilemmas, Rob Phayre’s book examines kidnapping for ransom as a business from criminal and law-enforcement perspectives. It also addresses incident management, personal risk awareness and four rules for surviving a kidnapping. The subject is informed by the author’s team’s work delivering ransoms in hostage-release operations, including cases involving maritime assets. The book combines true-crime material with operational guidance, making the mechanics and management of ransom incidents its central concerns.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Families seeking information about kidnapping-for-ransom incidents
  • Security professionals interested in incident management and risk awareness
  • True-crime readers interested in the operational side of ransom cases

Themes

Kidnapping for ransomHostage releaseIncident managementPersonal risk and survivalCriminal and law-enforcement perspectives

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Book overview

Ever wanted to learn about the kidnap for ransom business?

 

This book is for the families of those who have been kidnapped. It's for professional security managers, and it's for those with a fascination of true crime, who want to learn.

 

Packed with real case studies, anecdotes, scenarios and dilemmas you can:

 

  • Examine how kidnap for ransom works as a business.
  • Explore the topic from both the criminal and law enforcement perspectives.
  • Learn how to manage a kidnap for ransom incident.
  • Understand the risks so you can avoid getting kidnapped.
  • Remember the four rules for kidnap survival.

 

Rob Phayre and his team specialised in the delivery of ransom, for the release hostages for humanitarian purposes. Over a three-year period they:

  • Rescued over 800 hostages.
  • Recovered more than 2 billion dollars' worth of shipping assets and cargos.
  • Delivered more than a hundred million US dollars in cash as ransom.

 

Some of those individual ransoms broke the world records for the largest ransoms ever paid at sea.

 

Those records still stand today...

 

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