Ray Breslin dirige une équipe d'élite spécialisé pour faire sortir les gens de prisons les plus impénétrables du monde. Lorsque son agent le plus fiable est kidnappé et disparait dans la prison la plus complexe jamais construite, Ray tente de le traquer avec l'aide d'anciens amis.
Après avoir semé le trouble au Kazakhstan, le général Alexander Radek est capturé par un commando russo-américain et jeté en prison. Trois semaines après, le président américain John Marshall reçoit un accueil triomphal à Moscou et lance une solennelle déclaration de guerre au terrorisme. Alors qu'il rentre à Washington à bord de l'Air Force One en compagnie de sa femme, de sa fille et de son cabinet, des terroristes investissent l'appareil et séquestrent les passagers.
When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
A family of clowns have a daring rescue plan.
A former police colonel robbed a bank. He believes that this is the only way to prevent the illegal export of gold, which goes through a channel controlled by the mafia.
On September 6, 1970, militant Palestinians hijack a fully occupied Swissair plane. After weeks of negotiations, the Federal Council capitulates, gives in to the terrorists' demands and releases three Palestinians imprisoned in Switzerland.
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.