In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
New York : Crown Publishers, [2009]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and Cabinet officers and their families are really like. If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, "They would scream."
Contents:
Supervise -- Lancer -- Volunteer -- Threats -- Searchlight -- Daro -- Passkey -- Crown -- Jackal -- Deacon -- Stagecoach -- Rawhide -- Rainbow -- Hogan's alley -- "I forgot to duck" -- The big show -- Timberwolf -- A psychic's vision -- Eagle -- Cutting corners -- POTUS -- Shutting down magnetometers -- Trailblazer -- Living on borrowed time -- Turquoise and Twinkle -- Angler -- Renegade -- Grenade -- Padding statistics -- Dereliction of duty.
Subjects:
United States. Secret Service -- History.
Presidents -- Protection -- United States.
Secret service -- United States -- History.
United States. Secret Service -- History.
Presidents -- Protection -- United States.
Secret service -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780307461353
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Enforcement Kes | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes index.