Overview
Terrorism is a thoroughly researched collection of information on how to prevent, avoid, cope with, recover from, and analyze criminal kidnapping and hostage-taking. Filled with the stories of successful hostages, along with statistics from intelligence files and international reports, this book is intended as a scholarly yet practical approach to this world-wide issue. The author interviews well-known former hostages, such as David Dodge, General and Mrs. James Dozier, Richard Grover, Gordon Kennedy, Larry and Sis Levin, Roy Libby, Bruce Olson and Lloyd Van Vactor. Based on fifteen years of research and Quarles' experience as a negotiator for missionaries taken hostage, Terrorism is a book that is appropriate for political theorists as well as those in the field.
Synopsis
Terrorism is a thoroughly researched collection of information on how to prevent, avoid, cope with, recover from, and analyze criminal kidnapping and hostage-taking. Filled with the stories of successful hostages, along with statistics from intelligence files and international reports, this book is intended as a scholarly yet practical approach to this world-wide issue.
Booknews
Quarles (criminal justice, U. of Mississippi), a consultant in bombing and kidnapping cases in Latin America, gives advice to international travelers and those responsible for protecting them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
Journal Of Security Education
Terrorism Avoidance and Survival...is a well researched and presented volume on the subject of terrorism and how to survive it. While making no pretense of creating new materials, it successfully examines the old and new from "well known" authorities in the field...It is replete with sources of all kinds, a rarity in itself for a text of this kind... It should be on the bookshelf of every security educator and trainer-and frequently taken down and read.Journal Of Police Crisis Negotiations
The subject matter is both concise, and arranged in a manner that is easily read and comprehended by the novice. The author is well experienced, practically and academically, and imparts his knowledge expertly...— Norm Fulcher