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Employees Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Terrorism United States Prevention United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Biography United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Fiction United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Conlon-McIvor, Maura.
Summary: The daughter of an FBI agent discusses her unsuccessful efforts to get her father to talk about his work, her childhood fantasies about becoming an agent, and the family challenges that eventually enabled her to confront her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONLON-MCIVOR, MAURA CONMcCabe, Andrew (Andrew George)
Summary: "On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: 'Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI--A great day for Democracy.' In [this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCABE MCCKitfield, James
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITWilkie, Curtis
Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WILWeiss, Murray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 WEIGage, Beverly
Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOVER, J. EDGAR GAGWalder, Tracy
Summary: "A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALDER WALSokoloff, Alexandra
Summary: FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can’t believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2014
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Summary: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. 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. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELNOURY, TAMER ELNFreeh, Louis J.
Summary: A former head of the FBI describes his appointment to the Bureau, efforts to overcome under-funding and outdated technical resources, and determination to reform the FBI while protecting its freedom from political interference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 FREFelt, W. Mark
Summary: This account of Mark Felt's FBI career, from the end of the great American crime wave through World War II, the culture wars of the 1960s, and his conviction for his role in penetrating the Weather Underground, provides a historical and personal context to the "Deep Throat" chapter of his life. It also provides Felt's personal recollections of the Watergate scandal, which he wrote in 1982 and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FELT, W. MARK FELMonroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONFriend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, STEPHEN FRIForrest, Brett
Summary: When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REILLY, BILLY FORCoulter, Catherine
Summary: "When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered. Fourteen years later, Kirra is an attorney in Porte Franklyn, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, Emma was saved by her adoptive father. Now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COUGeary, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25092 HELComey, James B.
Summary: Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 COMCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B COMEY COMMcGowan, Michael (Michael R.)
Summary: "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 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGOWAN, MICHAEL MCGWhitcomb, Christopher
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.232 WHILetersky, Paul
Summary: "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LETERSKY, PAUL LETDouglas, John E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 DOUWhitcomb, Christopher
Summary: Of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. law enforcement officers, only 150 have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the FBI. The Hostage Rescue Team is the FBI's most specialized, elite squadron, equivalent to the Navy's Seals & the Army's Delta Force, & is responsible for terrorist capture, hostage situations, & other large-scale emergencies in the U.S. And around the world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.232 WHIDouglas, John E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 DOUKava, Alex.
Summary: During a training exercise, Creed's scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida's Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2020