Facing Down Evil deals with the crucial role of hostage negotiations and criminal profiling in defusing and solving major crises faced every day by the FBI. Author Clint Van Zandt discusses his role as a hostage negotiator and profiler in a number of historic FBI cases. These include his critical interviews with David Koresh during the 1993 Waco confrontation, how he helped identify Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1995, and his valuable psycholinguistic and behavioral insights resulting in the unmasking and arrest of Ted Kaczynski in 1996. In this updated and expanded edition, former FBI Agent Van Zandt addresses four modern issues whose importance seems to grow with each new year. Using actual case histories, he looks at the sudden shock of home invasions and how to prevent, survive and escape from them. Next he examines the insidious threat of Internet "sextortion," whose victims include both adults and children. Then he takes on the question of how to spot a pedophile and focuses on an actual child abduction case that resulted in the rescue of the young victim from a horrific underground prison. Finally, Van Zandt discusses the new faces of suicide bombers. Where do they come from, how are they recruited and how can they be stopped?