Crisis Nicky Perfect

•The success of The Prison Doctor series illustrates a keen appetite amongst mass market readers for high stakes professional confessionals.

•Hostage and crisis negotiation is an endlessly fascinating profession, and Nicky is perfectly placed to shed light on the role – its complexities and challenges, but also the ways in which it affords the opportunity to make a real difference.

•Nicky was the only woman on a team of specialist officers dedicated permanently to negotiation, which could help from a PR perspective.

•The professional confessional genre continues to perform strongly, particularly when the author’s role is intriguing and high stakes.

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life.

Nicky Perfect knows that the most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning.

Nicky worked on the elite New Scotland Yard Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, becoming the Deputy Head of Unit in 2016. She has travelled the world teaching negotiation and working with the Government on international operations.

Nicky spent many years as the Director of UK Training of the National Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Course. She was responsible for training police officers across the UK and assessing their capability as negotiators.

On retiring from the police Nicky purchased her local garage and converted the showroom into a coffee shop and gym, keeping the garage workshop, employing local people and creating a community hub.

Paperback Original

Often one of the first on the scene, during her two decades spent in crisis and hostage negotiation, she was deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable.

From rooftop stand-offs to criminal barricades, gang kidnappings to terrorist incidents, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance.

978-0-00-860543-8

320pp 235x184,

14 Sep 2023

£ 26.00