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7) The warlords
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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"The Germans' goal was to paralyze America, but for a daring Texas Ranger they might have succeeded." --
"It's 1915. World War I is exploding in foreign lands. In Europe, men are dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment is growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot is set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels." --
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English
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“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This "penetrating and remarkable history of the FBI" examines its operations and development from the Reconstruction era to the 9/11 attacks (M. J. Heale, author of McCarthy's Americans).
In The FBI, U.S. intelligence expert Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones presents the first comprehensive portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Setting the bureau's story in the context of American history, he challenges conventional...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how...
19) Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
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Language
English
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An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.