===================================================================== Chris Voss is a FBI negotiator with over two decades of experience working in the field, and a long second career teaching at Georgetown University and USC. In his book, Never Split the Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It, Voss brings the reader right into the exhilarating world of crisis negotiations, starting each chapter with a thrilling case where he or one of his colleagues had to negotiate to save someone's life. His captivating accounts include kidnappings, hostage situations, and humorously a trip to the car dealership to haggle for a new truck. Interspersed between the actions, Voss delivers a lesson in each chapter explaining the principles and tactics he used to resolve each particular negotiation. He explains the psychology of his principles in easy to understand language, and makes them relate-able to our everyday lives by giving examples of exactly how they were applied by an average person in a situation at their job, in business dealing, or even when speaking to a telemarketer.