Thu, Jan 27, 2011
Recalled to help the Shaffers after Sally's abduction, King learns what the kidnappers are really after. Naomi's husband Philip has created a valuable new anti-obesity drug, worth millions and they want it. Bringing in the British police King goes for an exchange using a fake formula but Willard is ahead of him and Sally is not delivered until Philip has created the real thing. After visiting his daughter in a religious commune King goes it alone, rescuing Sally. But who is the enemy in the camp who started the whole idea of the abductions?
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
After his first failure to secure the release of a live hostage, kidnap negotiator Dominic King returns from South America to England and is surprised to find his teen-aged daughter has found religion. His business partner Angela sends him to Cape Town where Naomi Shaffer, a botanist working for a pharmaceuticals firm, has been snatched by two local men. King assumes that they are opportunistic amateurs, working alone and is successful in halving their ransom request to a million dollars. A hand-over goes ahead but is ambushed by a group of masked men who escape with Naomi and the ransom money.
Thu, Jan 20, 2011
Having shot and killed the original kidnappers interlopers take Naomi to a new hideout where she meets urbane, sinister Alexander Willard. King and his assistant Carrie meet local police inspector Lanning, who tells them that one of the dead men was a security guard at Naomi's firm, which is presumably how she was targeted. King negotiates with Willard and Naomi is released safely for four hundred thousand pounds, though King is surprised that a professional abductor agreed to such a comparatively low sum. His suspicions are confirmed when Naomi's little girl Sally is taken from her home in London by Willard.
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
In Kashmir King negotiates the release of the Mehtas,a British Asian couple visiting their son Mahavi but local police open fire,causing kidnappers Anwar Razdan and English-born Leela Nishad to escape with Mahavi onto a tourist bus,where they hold the occupants hostage. King gets the police to hold fire but Razdan,learning that his family has been taken,threatens to shoot a hostage each hour until they are released. King persuades him to wait until dawn but discovers that Flo,daughter of British Foreign Secretary Robert Holland,is on board. Meanwhile housewife Beth Cooper flies out to Kashmir after seeing in a television news report that her husband Shaun and his parents are among the passengers.
Thu, Mar 1, 2012
The two kidnappers fall out as the less fervent Leela questions the need to execute hostages. The injured Mahavi is released and Flo slips her passport into his pocket to hide her identity. However he is later seen making a phone call and when the kidnappers agree to release all the women and children she is held back. Eventually all the passengers are freed except Flo and Shaun and Leela offers to release Flo in exchange for immunity for herself. King consents but when he reaches the agreed meeting place makes a grisly discovery.
Thu, Mar 8, 2012
Angela flies out to console King after the murder of Carrie. Robert Holland wants them off the case as he will pay up but King aims to stay on and avenge Carrie.He meets with Razdan,who has Shaun Cooper hostage,but claims that he no longer has Flo. It becomes clear to King that somebody he had believed to be a hostage is in fact a kidnapper,working with Leela for their own financial agenda. He sets out to expose the duplicity amongst the gang members and bring Carrie's murderer to justice,at the same time releasing Flo and Cooper.