Lieutenant Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson), a top Chicago Police Departmenthostage negotiator, is approached by his partner Nate Roenick (Paul Guilfoyle) who warns him that large sums of money are being embezzled from the department's disability fund, for which Danny is a board member, and members of their own unit are involved. Nate claims to have an informant whom he refuses to name. When Danny goes to meet with him again he finds Nate murdered seconds before other police arrive, pinning him as the prime suspect.
Things only get worse for Danny when Internal Affairs investigator Terence Niebaum (J. T. Walsh), whom Nate's informant suspected of involvement in the embezzlement, is assigned to investigate the murder. Niebaum discovers that Nate was killed with a gun from a case Danny had worked. He and other investigators search Danny's house the following morning and claim to have found papers for an offshore bank account with a deposit equal to one of the amounts of money embezzled. Danny is made to surrender his gun and badge and hardly anyone believes his protests of innocence. Facing the possibility of serious charges within a day, Danny storms into Niebaum's office and questions Niebaum about any involvement with the fund and who set him up. When Niebaum refuses to answer, Danny takes Niebaum, his administrative assistant Maggie (Siobhan Fallon), police commander Grant Frost (Ron Rifkin), and two-bit con man Rudy Timmons (Paul Giamatti) as hostages.
The Negotiator is a crime novel by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1989. The story includes a number of threads that are slowly woven together. The central thread concerns a kidnapping that turns into a murder and the negotiator's attempts to solve the crime.
Synopsis
Late 1989: Texan oil tycoon Cyrus Miller and shipping tycoon Melvin Scanlon conspire to bring the oil fields of the Middle East under American control. Meanwhile, United States President John Cormack and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev draw up plans for a $100 billion arms reduction bill – the Nantucket Treaty. This proves debilitating for Miller and Scanlon's plans, so they team up with three arms manufacturers who will be financially ruined by the treaty and hire mercenary Irving Moss, a sexual sadist and ex-CIA officer recently released from prison, to devise a plan to destroy the President and therefore the treaty.
Tell me how does it feel. To watch a child bleed to death. From a weapon you designed. You've spilt they're blood. Is your pride really worth this? Such a mindless slaughter. Bow down to greed. Bloodshed. Your lies cut their throat. Such beauty. Such innocence. Set to self destruct. As you nail their coffin shut. With your hammer of hate. The flesh is torn. Hate remains. The. Flesh. Is. Torn. They bleed. Bloodshed. Broken by your hand.
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The Independent Kerry TDs Michael and Danny Healy-Rae are also expected to soon open formal negotiations with Fianna Fáil and FineGael. The Social Democrats will meet later to decide if it will continue to negotiate with those parties.
