The inside story of FBI negotiations by the only agent with the courage to tell it. The assault on Waco. The Oklahoma City bombing. The Covenant siege. The Unabomber case. They all have Clint Van Zandt in common-a seminal figure in the formation of the FBI's Hostage Negotiation Program who was immortalized with a fictional counterpart in Silence of the Lambs. In this revealing book, he draws readers deep into the private world of those negotiations, as well as the workings of the criminal mind, as he recounts his career on the frontlines of the FBI's most famous cases.