Sacrifice
Kinnings, Max / Kinnings, Max Christmas Day. In the attic of a London mansion, a masked man stands over a disgraced financier, holding a can of petrol and a match. Looking on are the terrified man's wife and daughter, who has a primed grenade tied around her throat. The last hostage is a delivery boy - in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ed Mallory, blind hostage negotiator, is feeling the pressure after his last case went painfully wrong. But as he begins his tentative ...