1397: Kyle Vowinkel | How an FBI Negotiator Keeps Cool Under Fire
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So this book starts off with a bang, really. Your negotiation with the surviving Boston marathon bomber was like Ninety minutes about the length of a good podcast. So Put me ten yards from that bullet riddled boat in Watertown and my knowledge of this comes from your book and then the movie, which I Can't remember what the movie was called, but I guess that was accurate. He was just hiding in some guy's boat. Yes, Patriots say
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