The Last Undercover

The Last Undercover
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781599951805
ISBN-13 : 1599951800
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Undercover by : Bob Hamer

Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In undercover operations Hamer posed as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last undercover assignment-and his hardest-was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Now, looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Bob tells us of the challenges he endured and overcame as he stared the dark side of humanity in the face-and never blinked. It is rare for an agent to serve undercover long-term, but he made a career out of a job that can completely consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through all of this Bob found a way to remain true to his faith, and always put his family before his work.

The Last Undercover

The Last Undercover
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Publisher : Center Street
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781599951805
ISBN-13 : 1599951800
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Undercover by : Bob Hamer

Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In undercover operations Hamer posed as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last undercover assignment-and his hardest-was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Now, looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Bob tells us of the challenges he endured and overcame as he stared the dark side of humanity in the face-and never blinked. It is rare for an agent to serve undercover long-term, but he made a career out of a job that can completely consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through all of this Bob found a way to remain true to his faith, and always put his family before his work.

Friend of the Family

Friend of the Family
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Publisher : Howells House
Total Pages : 366
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0929590198
ISBN-13 : 9780929590196
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Friend of the Family by : D. Lea Jacobs

Jacobs writes historical fiction under a different name, but here tries his hand at nonfiction to tell the story of Ed Robb, one of the first and most successful FBI undercover agents to work against the Mafia organized crime network. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Making Jack Falcone

Making Jack Falcone
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 359
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781471108525
ISBN-13 : 147110852X
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Jack Falcone by : Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia

At 6'4" and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. 'Big Jack Falcone', as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal activities - from extortion and loan-sharking to assault and murder. The result was a string of busts and a quarter of a million dollar contract put out on his life. A fascinating inside look at the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime, MAKING JACK FALCONE sheds new light on two organizational cultures that continue to exert an unparalled grip on our imagination.

The Last Cowboy

The Last Cowboy
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0985412704
ISBN-13 : 9780985412708
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Cowboy by : Tim Sellers

The memoir of one of the most decorated members of the DEA. Sellers saw action as a street cop in Texas and finally as an undercover agent hunting the terror cell that killed five Afghan CIA counterparts.

Ghost

Ghost
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250136657
ISBN-13 : 1250136652
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost by : Michael R. McGowan

The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael R. McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. Ghost is the ultimate insider's account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government, and a testament to the incredible work of the FBI.

The Pretender

The Pretender
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Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Total Pages : 367
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250068637
ISBN-13 : 1250068630
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pretender by : Marc Ruskin

"The FBI generally has about 100 undercover agents working full-time in the field. In the 1990s and 2000s, Marc Ruskin had the most diverse, and notorious, case list of all, and the broadest experience within the bureaucracy, including overseas. He worked ops targeting public corruption, corporate fraud, Wall Street scams, narcotics trafficking, La Cosa Nostra, counterfeiting -- and gritty street-level scams and schemes. Sometimes working three or four cases simultaneously, Ruskin switched identities by the day: Each morning he had to walk out the door with the correct ID, clothes, accessories and frame of mind for that day's mission. And how is the right UC agent chosen, how is a bogus identity manufactured and "backstopped," how is the Bureau's long-term con painstakingly assembled? No one has ever given us the inside story like Ruskin. The Pretender is the definitive narrative of undercover ops -- the procedures, the successes, the failures--and the changes in the culture of the new-era FBI."--Jacket flap.

American Radical

American Radical
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101986172
ISBN-13 : 1101986174
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis American Radical by : Tamer Elnoury

The explosive New York Times bestselling memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11, 2001. Its express purpose was to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals were to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way as possible. It was a furious race against the clock for Elnoury and his unit to stop them before they could implement their plans. Yet the techniques were as old as time: listen, record, and prove terrorist intent. It's no secret that federal agencies have waged a broad, global war against terror, through and after the war in Afghanistan. But for the first time, in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero: To many Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even existed, let alone the vital and dangerous work they have done keeping all Americans safe.

The Undercover Book List

The Undercover Book List
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 264
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1772782637
ISBN-13 : 9781772782639
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Undercover Book List by : Colleen Nelson

Life Undercover

Life Undercover
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525654988
ISBN-13 : 0525654984
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Life Undercover by : Amaryllis Fox

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to "the Farm," where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field as an art dealer specializing in tribal and indigenous art and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible to put down record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.