Every Rank in Kidnap and Ransom

In Mali, a man lays his rifle on the table between you, not aimed, just there. You finish your tea and go on talking without once looking at it. Forty-one days in Monterrey and four months on a hijacked ship both lose to the longest negotiation in this video: your wife's 20 years of wanting a house with a garden, which she wins. Claire should be taking notes. 0:00 The Candidate 2:26 The Associate 5:36 The Negotiator 8:41 The Regional Specialist 12:03 The Crisis Manager 14:39 The Corporate Adviser 17:16 The Firm Partner 19:40 The Institutional Voice 22:02 The Elder 24:30 The Ghost Sources, with proof of life: Kidnap and ransom industry history and negotiators (New York Review of Books) UK law banning insurers reimbursing terrorist ransoms (UK government) Debate over US no-concessions hostage policy (War on the Rocks) Former hostages and families after captivity (New America) History and selection of the Special Boat Service (National Army Museum) Militant kidnappings and ransom sums in Mali (S-RM) Mass school abductions and ransoms in Nigeria (Institute for Security Studies) Somali pirates holding ship crews for ransom (UN Somalia mission)