An FBI hostage negotiator remembers his contributions to significant cases, from the Hostage Negotiation Program to the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski, in a personal account during which he also describes his struggle to balance the demands of his job with his family life and faith.
Clint Van Zandt retired from the FBI in 1995 after twenty-five years of service, ending his career as both the FBI's Chief Hostage Negotiator and a supervisor in the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit that was later immortalized in
The Silence of the Lambs. Upon retirement he started Van Zandt Associates, Inc. (VZA), an international threat and risk assessment group. In addition to his numerous monthly appearances on a wide variety of news programs, Van Zandt is a regular contributor to
The Abrams Report and has a weekly column on MSNBC.com.
Daniel Paisner is the author or coauthor of more than twenty bestselling books, including the New York Times bestsellers Last Man Down, with New York City Battalion Commander, Richard Picciotto; Book, with Whoopi Goldberg; and, Mountain, Get Out of My Way, with Montel Williams.