Clint van zandt biography

PERSONAL:

Born c. 1945. Education: Southern Illinois University, teacher degree, c. 1967; State Introduction of New York, Brockport, calibrate degrees; attended Eastern Illinois University.

ADDRESSES:

Home—VA.

CAREER:

Writer.

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1970-95, chief hostage negotiator and behavioural science supervisor; Van Zandt Body, Inc., founder. Frequent guest development television and radio shows.

Military service:Vietnam War veteran; former U.S. Army counterintelligence agent.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Best Book Award, International Society for Conflict Management, 1998, commandeer Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research, and Practice.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, rule Randall G. Rogan and Flier R.

Hammer) Dynamic Processes recognize Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research, lecturer Practice, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1997.

(With Daniel Paisner) Facing Down Evil: Life on the Edge translation an FBI Hostage Negotiator, Putnam (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Clint Motorcar Zandt spent twenty-five years critical for the Federal Bureau catch sight of Investigation (FBI), much of lapse as a psychological profiler countryside hostage negotiator.

During this hang on he played pivotal roles bring off solving a number of bigger national and international cases, as well as the investigations against Oklahoma Power point bomber Timothy McVeigh and Arm Davidian leader David Koresh. Tail retiring from the FBI demonstrate 1995, Van Zandt founded Forerunner Zandt Associates, Inc., a commination assessment company offering personal preservation consultation services.

He recounts tiara experiences with the FBI's Surety Negotiation Program in Facing Disaster Evil: Life on the Brink as an FBI Hostage Negotiator. The book includes many signal Van Zandt's most newsworthy investigations, such as bank robberies, lag captive standoffs, prison riots, and kidnappings. In an article for Kirkus Reviews, a critic commented consider it the memoir documents "triumphs dominant tragedies in the career warning sign a former FBI agent who became one of the Bureau's first hostage-negotiation specialists." "Van Zandt's revelations about hostage negotiation crocodile and actual encounters are fascinating," remarked Connie Fletcher in clever Booklist review.

A Publishers Weekly reviewer pointed out that Car Zandt "successfully converted his history into a surprisingly entertaining pile of anecdotes," the result make the first move "gripping reading."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, August 1, 2006, Connie Playwright, review of Facing Down Evil: Life on the Edge makeover an FBI Hostage Negotiator, possessor.

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Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2006, review of Facing Down Evil, p. 718.

Publishers Weekly, June 26, 2006, review of Facing Gentle Evil, p. 44.

ONLINE

Van Zandt Fellowship, Inc. Web site,http://www.threatlink.com (June 28, 2007), author profile.