These specialists are patient, tactical, and brilliant at making decisions under enormous duress. I’ve had the privilege of befriending several response consultants during this process. It has been a fascinating journey, inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking. With little to no threat of punishment in some regions, these individuals and organizations can often kidnap at will.įor the last five years, I have delved into this dark world, interviewing crisis response consultants, former hostages, reintegration experts, psychiatrists who specialize in the captive’s mindset, K&R insurance executives, and the special forces soldiers who deliver ransoms and execute rescues. Why? In some cases, displaced military and police turn their security skills to kidnap-and-ransom to put food on the table criminal organizations of all kinds and sizes abduct locals and tourists for quick cash and terrorist organizations carry out kidnappings not just as a fundraising mechanism, but also as propaganda stunts. The actual number is much higher, as kidnapping has become an international crisis, especially in certain politically unstable parts of the globe. Worldwide more than 40,000 people are kidnapped every year, and this staggering number only reflects the incidents that have been reported. Paris is one of these experts, and she has a personal history with kidnapping, so she’s especially driven to bring hostages back home. Responders travel all over the world and risk their lives to help others because kidnapping is on the rise, they are unfortunately in high demand. Response consultants work for private companies, counseling their clients on travel safety-and when the worst happens, offering support and guidance to hostages and their families while negotiating for the release of the captives. Across the globe, approximately twenty-five to thirty people work as crisis response consultants, the industry term for elite kidnap negotiators-and that number is growing.
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