Negotiator / Frederick Forsyth 183 p.

A fast-paced, plot-driven, suspenseful thriller about an international campaign of terror starts with the kidnapping of an American Oxford student. The best hostage negotiator, the retired Quinn, responds to an appeal from the parents--the President and his wife. A complex plot involves global factions each with an agenda that involves overthrowing an oil rich country’s government, to bringing down the President and stopping a giant arms-reduction treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The operation goes bad and Quinn goes after the perpetrators.