The Negotiator by Frederick Forsyth

A veteran hostage negotiator is summoned when the U.S. President’s son is abducted while studying in Oxford, but the operation spirals into tragedy, revealing a plot engineered to sabotage East–West peace efforts. Following a trail of deception across Europe and America, he battles spies, assassins, and political cover-ups to uncover the shadowy power brokers behind the crime and avert a broader geopolitical disaster.

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