From The Books Inside Cover: Kidnapping! The theft of a human being! The word is ripped from today's headlines, and the name of Patty Hearst, Paul Getty, Reg Murphy and Victor Samuelson are on everyone's lips. But few people know the long and colorful, often grim and occasionally comic history of the crime, with stories as full of suspense, inventiveness and bizarre variety as the human mind has been able to conceive.