Hostage Taker starts off with a bang, literally. Hostages are killed from the beginning so you know when the Hostage Taker says he will kill more hostages and even blow up St. Patrick's Cathedral if his demands are not met, that he is serious. Eve Rossi is an FBI hostage negotiator who used to work with a rag tag team of criminals, but is now on extended leave. She is forced back into action and starts a cat and mouse game with the Hostage Taker that she must win. She and her team all have secrets in their past lives as does the Hostage Taker, the hostages and the witnesses that she is told to bring to talk to the hostage taker. It is her job to figure out how to read the Hostage Taker and how to keep the hostages alive and how to protect the priceless artifacts in the Cathedral. We are slowly given bits and pieces of information and we think we know the who and the why but it is soon obvious that nothing is as it seems. You won’t be able to put this one down and you will want to read more about Eve Rossi and her rag tag team.