What is "kidnappers"

Usage examples of "kidnappers".

I would without doubt have let the kidnappers escape, because that was safest for Alessia, but one of the carabinieri, passing and catching sight of the blip, ran urgently towards the bull-like man who with blowing whistle appeared to be chiefly in charge, shouting to him above the clamor and pointing a stabbing finger towards the van.

All kidnappers are unstable, but the political variety, hungry for power and publicity as much as money, make quicksand look like rock.

Cenci, twenty-three years old, had by that time been in the hands of kidnappers for five weeks, three days, ten hours, and her life had never been closer to forfeit.

I listened to the voices from the apartment, sorting them gradually into father, mother, two children, a baby, and two kidnappers, one, the one who had talked on the telephone, with a growling bass voice, the other a more anxious tenor.

The engineer spoke rapidly with Pucinelli, who then repeated everything more slowly for my benefit: the kidnappers had locked the mother and three children in one of the bedrooms, and had mentioned ropes tying the father.

It gave me the sort of invisibility that the firm had found worked best: kidnappers always knew everything about a household they had attacked, and a newcomer too officiously visiting alarmed them.

I thought, driving Cenci in his Mercedes to meet Ricardo, was that the kidnappers were still talking.

In his case, although some of the kidnappers had been arrested a month later, only a small part of the million-pound ransom had been recovered.

Her reaction, however, to my suggestion that she should not go so regularly at set times to the tennis court and in fact should go away altogether and stay with friends, because kidnappers if feeling frustrated by delays had been known to take a second speeding-up bite at the same family, had been not only negative but acid.

Changes of routine from before to after a kidnap were of powerful significance to kidnappers, who were often better detectives than detectives, and better spies than spies.

Lorenzo still breathed precariously on his machines and in the meager suburban street the two kidnappers remained barricaded in the third-floor apartment, with talk going on from both sides, but no action, except a delivery of milk for the baby and bread and sausage for the others.

In South American countries particularly, where I had worked several times, kidnappers regularly bribed or threatened policemen to look the wrong way, a custom scarcely unknown elsewhere.

I have thought once or twice before this that the kidnappers were being instructed.

All in all it was a contented ship which everyone worked in from personal commitment, and, thanks to the kidnappers, business was healthy.

He could feel his way through the psyches of kidnappers as through a minefield, but preferred to have me deal with the families of the victims.