Hostage
(Book)

Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his new peace is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.

Former LAPD SWAT unit hostage negotiator Jeff Talley is thrown back into the high-pressure world he's tried to leave behind when a family is taken hostage in their Los Angeles home by three fleeing robbers. But Talley's nightmare just begins because the house holds the dirty secrets of the city's biggest crime lord. And those inside aren't the only ones held hostage. A "New York Times" Notable Book. (July).