The Worst Thing
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"Aaron Elkins has been hailed as "a master" (The Dallas Morning News) for his Edgarʼ Award-winning Gideon Oliver mysteries. Now, in an original new novel, he illustrates how quickly everything can go wrong when you ask: What's the worst that can happen? For Bryan Bennett, designing hostage negotiation programs is the perfect job--as long as he keeps a safe, theoretical distance. What he can't do is deal directly with kidnappers or their victims, as a result of his own abduction and imprisonment as a small boy. Thirty-some years later, intense nightmares still plague his sleep, and a fear of enclosed spaces prevents him from attempting to travel. So when Bryan's boss asks him to fly to Reykjavik, Iceland, to teach his corporate-level kidnapping and extortion seminar, he automatically says no. But the CEO of GlobalSeas Fisheries, Inc. has specifically requested Bryan--or no one else. Bryan finally relents... For decades he's treaded gingerly around the edges of his deepest terrors. Now, on this trip, Bryan's taken hostage again and must face his fears full-on. Will he realize that in this battle of will and nerve, he is his own greatest enemy? Or has this fight already been lost, years and years ago?"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 296 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780425240991
0425240991
SUBJECTS
Hostages -- Fiction.
Hostage negotiations -- Fiction.
Crisis management -- Fiction.
Business enterprises -- Security measures -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.