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Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Former Scotland Yard detective turned kidnap-for-ransom and hostage negotiator, and Sunday Times bestselling author of "Order Out of Chaos".

Aug 9, 2026

48:28
By sometimes paying up, I guess.
48:29
Every single time we paid up.
48:32
I would get a phone call and normally it was done through insurance policies.
48:37
So a company who are gonna operate in Africa, Middle East, Philippines, Latin America, the usual places that you'd expect these kidnappings to take place, would take out special risk insurance.
48:48
And so just like on your car insurance, if you wanna make a claim, you phone a number, gets routed through a call center essentially, and then it works its way to people like myself.
48:59
And then the difference in the police was you had a whole team to support you.
49:05
This time it was off you go, Scott.

6 MINS LATER

54:59
It's never included a mock execution before.

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