How To Deliver A Ransom: Learn the secrets behind the Kidnap for Ransom business. - Softcover

Phayre, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1739326687 ISBN 13: 9781739326685

Publisher: Rob Phayre Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Ever wanted to learn about the kidnap for ransom business?

This book is for the families of those who have just been kidnapped,
It’s for professional security managers,
And it’s for those with a fascination of true crime, who want to learn.

• Understand the risks so you can avoid getting kidnapped in the first place.
• Learn about what to do if it has just happened to your loved one or colleague. This book includes guidance provided through extensive checklists on what to do, and what not to do, when responding to live kidnap for ransom cases.
• Take a look in detail at how kidnap for ransom works as a business, so you can understand how to beat kidnappers at their own game.
• Explore the topic from abduction through to recovery from both the criminal and the good guys perspectives.

This illustrated book is packed with case studies, anecdotes, scenarios and dilemmas.


Rob Phayre and his team specialised in the delivery of ransom, for the release of hostages for humanitarian purposes.

Over a three-year period they:

• Rescued over 800 hostages.
• Recovered more than 2 billion dollars’ worth of shipping assets and cargos.
• Delivered more than a hundred million US dollars in cash as ransom.

Some of those individual ransoms broke the world records for the largest ransoms ever paid at sea.

Those records still stand today…

About this title

About the Author

Rob delivered his first ransom to Somali pirates about fifteen years ago. Since then he and his team have freed more than 800 hostages, released several billion dollars worth of shipping and cargo's and delivered more than a hundred million dollars in ransoms.Rob started his career as a military helicopter pilot and then moved to Africa where he worked as a security and crisis manager for some of the largest companies in the world.From the ice and snow above the arctic circle to the deserts in the Sahara. From the jungles in Africa to the rippling waves of the Indian Ocean, Rob has led projects around the globe. His real life experience in so many places with so many fascinating characters doing such daring deeds makes him the ideal author of How to Deliver A Ransom, and The Response Files.Rob now lives in England and is lucky to do so with his wife and children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rob Phayre Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1739326687
• ISBN 13: 9781739326685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244