A NOVEL BY

DAVID ROBBINS

BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY BY
TONY GILROY

When her husband, an international oil company executive, is kidnapped by South American rebels, there is only one man Alice Bowman dares to trust: hostage negotiator Terry Thorne.  Trapped in a high stakes, give-and-take ransom game, Alice puts much more than her husband's life in Thorne's hands.  But Thorne, now playing by his own rules, knows that nothing changes hands -- neither money nor love -- when you're waiting for......

Includes excerpts from:
"Adventures in the Ransom Trade"
the article by William Prochnau that inspired the movie
and
Long March to Freedom:
Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by
Colombian Narco-Guerrillas