‘Take No Prisoners’ Review: An Inside Look at America’s Top Hostage Negotiator and His Battle Against Wrongful Detention

‘Take No Prisoners’ Review: An Inside Look at America’s Top Hostage Negotiator and His Battle Against Wrongful Detention

There’s no easy job description, or rest for that matter, for Roger Carstens, officially the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs (SPERA) until just this January. Carstens was one of the negotiators behind aiding Brittney Griner to freedom as well as the release of Russia-held prisoners Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Paul Whelan. Now, in Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De’s moving and effectively edited documentary “Take No Prisoners,” we see the fallout and wrongful…