The Negotiator Mass market paperbound - 1990

From the jacket flap

Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man--Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all--and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths--to save not only the victim but the entire free world.

Media reviews

"Forsyth gives us all we ask  for."--Chicago Tribune.

"Forsyth at the top of his game!"--Tom  Clancy, author of The Hunt For Red  October.

"A Blockbuster."--New York Daily  News.

"A completely satisfying thriller. . .  The Negotiator delivers. . . A  string of unsettling  climaxes."--Newsweek.