Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

Our plan called for the opposite of an ATF-style frontal assault. Our intention was to call each of the five or six individual sites … urging them to immediately and peacefully surrender.

Waco 余悸改战术，plot 87。

The way he saw it, Cheryl and little Charlie were his possessions, and he wanted them back.

挟持动机清晰，cast 85。

when we called in, either the detainees would refuse to answer or they would answer and immediately hang up.

拒谈即节拍，pace 88。

And on rare occasions, you have to lie.

直白有效，prose 83。

At a glance, Talladega might be mistaken for a large community college campus. … The only indications of this institution’s real purpose were the exceptionally small windows and the substantial perimeter fences.

监狱伪装立世界，world 89。

But what I knew that he didn’t was that somewhere out in the fields surrounding us, FBI marksmen were poised, waiting to take his life.

信任/杀机并置，hook 92。

Just because a situation may appear nonnegotiable shouldn’t mean we don’t try to negotiate.

不可谈仍谈方法，innov 86。

The terrorists have to be good only once to do serious harm. We have to be good all the time.

不对称收束，ending 88。