This book is for the families of those who have just been kidnapped,
It’s for professional security managers,
And it’s for those with a fascination of true crime, who want to learn.
Understand the risks so you can avoid getting kidnapped in the first place.
Learn about what to do if it has just happened to your loved one or colleague. This book includes guidance provided through extensive checklists on what to do, and what not to do, when responding to live kidnap for ransom cases.
Take a look in detail at how kidnap for ransom works as a business, so you can understand how to beat kidnappers at their own game.
Explore the topic from abduction through to recovery from both the criminal and the good guys perspectives.
This illustrated book is packed with case studies, anecdotes, scenarios and dilemmas.
Rob Phayre and his team specialised in the delivery of ransom, for the release of 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…
*You should get professional advice if you are responding to a real incident.
Rob spent nearly 20 years living in Africa.
He has been directly involved in the release of more than 800 hostages, several billion dollars worth of shipping and cargos and more than a hundred million dollars in ransom payments.
Some of those releases currently hold the Guinness world records for the largest ransoms ever paid at sea.
Rob is the award winning author of The Response Files, which includes the Amazon best selling 'The Ransom Drop' and also 'Jungle Heist' and 'The Insurgency.'