Law Enforcement category: 654 books
by Diana Montane, Kathy Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
What made me kill and kill again?
I can't answer that except like this...
Culled from interviews with the lead investigator and the victims' families, and exclusive access to the killer, this is a revealing, shocking, and unflinching portrait of Gerald Eugene Stano, a man who fancied himself one of the greatest lady-killers of them all.
Ghost
My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
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...
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018
Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award
A...
Fire Department City of New York
The Bravest; An Illustrated History 1865-2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Fire Department City of New York honors the department's 137 years of dedicated service to the City of New York by chronicling its history of the department with a updated listing of all the firefighters that have been killed in the line of duty. This book features 272 pages of which 67 are full-color...
Getting Away With Murder
The True Story Behind American Taliban John Walker Lindh and What the U.S. Government Had to Hide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Getting Away With Murder is an explosive investigation into the death of an American hero, the strange case of the American Taliban,” and why we never got the truth about either-until now. When John Walker Lindh was arrested in November 2001, Americans were shocked to learn that one of our own...
In the Secret Service
The True Story of the Man Who Saved President Reagan's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Meet Jerry Parr. In 1981, he was the agent standing next to Ronald Reagan when John Hinckley, Jr., stepped out of the crowd, intent on killing the president. In the Secret Service is an adrenaline-filled ride through the life of the agent who saved Ronald Reagan’s life. Jerry spent much of his life...
Beat Cop to Top Cop
A Tale of Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history...
NYPD Confidential
Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
For years, the police commissioner and the mayor of New York City have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have been hung out to dry. In the battle for control of the country's most powerful police force,...
Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)
A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked...
The Bureau
The Secret History of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the...
by Ralph Holiman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Working Undercover is a true short story about a DEA agent going undercover in New Orleans in 1992 to buy five kilograms of cocaine.
Bad Moon Rising
How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were...
The Dangers of Dissent
The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of 'political policing.' The monitoring of dissent is exposed,...
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Extrait : Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer ainsi, l’époque...