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[email protected] About the author The Kidnapping Rachel Briggs is a Researcher at The Foreign Policy Centre. She Business works on the Centre’s Security Programme and specialises in issues of international crime and its impact on personal and corporate security. Rachel studied geography at Girton College, Cambridge, where she focused on development, social exclusion and economic Rachel Briggs polarisation. First published in 2001 by The Kidnapping Business The Foreign Policy Centre Mezzanine Floor Elizabeth House 39 York Road Acknowledgements