Books by Gary Noesner
Gary Noesner retired from the FBI in 2003 following a 30-year career as an investigator, instructor and negotiator. He was a hostage negotiator for 23 years, spending the last ten years as the FBI’s Chief Negotiator. During his career he was involved in numerous crisis incidents: prison riots, right-wing militia standoffs, religious zealot sieges, terrorist embassy takeovers, aircraft hijackings and over 120 overseas kidnapping cases involving American citizens. Following his retirement from the FBI he became a Senior Vice President with Control Risks, an international risk consultancy, and most recently spent five and a half years working on a kidnap case involving three American defence contractors taken hostage by FARC in Colombia, South America. He has written a book about his FBI negotiation career, entitled Stalling for Time.
Interviews with Gary Noesner
The best books on Negotiating and the FBI, recommended by Gary Noesner
The former FBI Chief Negotiator says that negotiators need to come across as non-threatening and non-judgmental. And active listening isn’t just something you use in a hostage situation; it’s important in everyday life, too