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Book Wallace of the Secret Service

Download or read book Wallace of the Secret Service written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 3 in the Wallace of the Secret Service series Extreme Nationalists are fighting to relinquish the British government's power in Egypt. Secret agent Henderson, deployed to Egypt to assess the trouble, sends a coded message to say he's on the trail of something big. But there's been no word since.

Book Zero Fail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Leonnig
  • Publisher : Scribe Publications
  • Release : 2021-05-27
  • ISBN : 1922586250
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Zero Fail written by Carol Leonnig and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work — the determinative work — in this field … Terrifying.' —Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 — by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today — from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgement: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump’s arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains. To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that’s in desperate need of reform. 'I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers,' she writes, ‘not because they wanted to share tantalising gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.'

Book Wallace Intervenes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Wilson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
  • Release : 2016-04-21
  • ISBN : 0749018852
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Wallace Intervenes written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of the Secret Service, sends one of his agents to Germany to obtain vital information from the Baroness von Reudath. Foster is told to feign infatuation with her, but the lines between reality and pretence soon blur as a result of his growing affection for the baroness. Before long, Foster becomes prey to the insane jealousy of the tyrannical Marshal von Strom: Foster suddenly disappears and the baroness is charged with treason - the punishment for which is death. Can Wallace use his cunning to foil von Strom's treacherous plans and rescue the distressed lovers before it's too late?

Book The Secret Service

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  • Author : Wendy Walker
  • Publisher : Sun & Moon
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Secret Service written by Wendy Walker and published by Sun & Moon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a quasi-eighteenth century Europe, agents of the secret service use their ability to masquerade as objects to break up a plot against the king and queen.

Book The Mystery of Tunnel 51

Download or read book The Mystery of Tunnel 51 written by Alexander Wilson and published by Wallace of the Secret Service. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Leonard is not the man to desire fame or notoriety. His chronicler has been forced to fall back on office records and information supplied by various members of the secret service, to tell of the struggles of Wallace and his intelligence officers and their battles against the Soviet Union, terrorism and subversion in the British Empire, Nazi Germany and the tentacles of global organised crime.

Book Chronicles of the Secret Service

Download or read book Chronicles of the Secret Service written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated with the sheer ennui of London life and looking for fresh excitement, Anthony Anstruther and his girlfriend leave a nightclub to find a drunken Russian tramp playing noughts and crosses in chalk on Anthony's car. This seemingly innocent enterprise spurs on a chain of events involving the British Secret Service and an assassination that would shake the Empire to its foundations. In this thrilling trio of adventures, Sir Leonard Wallace and his Secret Service agents will thwart criminal endeavours from Hong Kong to Afghanistan and they'll stop at nothing to save the day.

Book Get Wallace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Wilson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby
  • Release : 2015-09-17
  • ISBN : 0749018658
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Get Wallace written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 4 in the Wallace of the Secret Service series Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous chief of the Secret Service, finds that the peace of Europe is threatened by a gang engaged in the theft and sale of national secrets. Wallace gets busy, and is assisted by the gang leader's own fear of him and his anxiety to get the Englishman into his power. Wallace's investigations, his startling discoveries and his escapes from death make this one of the most exciting books ever written by Alexander Wilson.

Book Microbes of Power

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  • Author : Alexander Wilson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby
  • Release : 2015-09-17
  • ISBN : 0749018755
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Microbes of Power written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 6 in the Wallace of the Secret Service series When two ex-ministers of Greece are given an effusive welcome in Cyprus following their failed attempt to overthrow the Greek government, Sir Leonard Wallace suspects something other than intense sympathy is afoot. He dispatches Captain Hugh Shannon to investigate, leading to a full-blooded, stirring yarn which grips the interest and carries the reader through a host of adventures to a breathless and highly exciting climax.

Book Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Investigations

Download or read book Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Investigations written by Robert A. Fein and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Standing Next to History

Download or read book Standing Next to History written by Joseph Petro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing Next to History presents the extraordinary account of Ronald Reagan's Secret Service bodyguard with stories that will make even a diehard "West Wing" fan go speechless. Joseph Petro served for 23 years as a special agent in the United States Secret Service; eleven of them with presidents and vice presidents. For four of those years he stood by the side of Ronald Reagan. Following his career as a Navy Lieutenant, during which he patrolled the rivers and canals along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, he worked his way up through the Secret Service to become one of the key men in charge of protecting the President. That journey through the Secret Service provides an individual look inside the most discreet law enforcement agency in the world, and a uniquely intimate account of the Reagan presidency. Engagingly, Joseph Petro tells "first hand" stories of: riding horses with the Reagans; eluding the press and sneaking the President and Mrs. Reagan out of the White House; rehearsing assassination attempts and working, then re-working every detail of the president's trips around the world; negotiating the president's protection with the KGB; diverting a 26 car presidential motorcade in downtown Tokyo; protecting Vice-President Dan Quayle at Rajiv Gandhi's funeral where he was surrounded by Yassir Arafat's heavily armed bodyguards; taking charge of the single largest protective effort in the history of the Secret Service-Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the United States; and being only one of three witnesses at the private meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that ushered in the end of the Cold War. Joseph Petro provides an original and fascinating perspective of the Secret Service, the inner workings of the White House and a little seen view of world leaders, as a man who stood next to history.

Book Wallace at Bay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Wilson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
  • Release : 2016-04-21
  • ISBN : 0749018801
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Wallace at Bay written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having received intelligence regarding a dangerous band of anarchists planning to assassinate King Peter of Yugoslavia on his royal visit to England, the British Secret Service are hot on the trail of one of the key suspects. At the centre of the investigation is Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous Chief of the Secret Service. His team soon discover that the group is a small part of a much larger conspiracy with international ambitions of exterminating all royalty. Can Sir Leonard and his courageous adherents disband the fanatics before their evil designs take hold?

Book The Kennedy Detail

Download or read book The Kennedy Detail written by Gerald Blaine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the events leading up to and following the assassination of the thirty-fifth president as revealed by the Secret Service agents who were present, in an account that also draws on letters written by Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath and other previously undisclosed sources.

Book The Inner Circle

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  • Author : Brad Meltzer
  • Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-01-11
  • ISBN : 0446577898
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book The Inner Circle written by Brad Meltzer and published by Hachette Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin January, a young archivist, is visited by Clementine Kaye, his childhood crush, and when the two stumble upon a two hundred-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington hidden in the president's secret vault, their curiosity puts them in a world of conspiracy, murder, and government secrets.

Book Five Presidents

Download or read book Five Presidents written by Clint Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Gallery Books.

Book Secrets of the Secret Service

Download or read book Secrets of the Secret Service written by Gary J. Byrne and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation. Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near misses, and bureaucratic and cultural rot threaten to erode this critical organization from the inside out. Today, as it works to protect President Trump, the Secret Service stands at a crossroads, and the time needed to choose the right course is running out. Agents and officers are leaving the Secret Service in droves, or they're being overworked to the point where they lose focus on the job. Management makes decisions based on politics, not the welfare of their employees. Byrne believes that this means danger for the men and women of the Secret Service, danger for the President they protect, and danger for the nation. In this book, he shares what he has witnessed and learned about the Secret Service with the hope that the problems of this most important agency can be fixed before it's too late.

Book The Devil s Cocktail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Wilson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby
  • Release : 2015-04-23
  • ISBN : 0749018550
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Cocktail written by Alexander Wilson and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 2 in the Wallace of the Secret Service series An intrigue against Britain by Bolshevik agents is strongly suspected at MI6. Sir Leonard Wallace sends Captain Hugh Shannon, disguised as a professor of English Literature, to India to get to the bottom of it.

Book Spycraft

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Wallace
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780525949800
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Spycraft written by Robert Wallace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's tour of the past half-century's espionage technologies also recounts some of the CIA's most secretive operations and how they have been performed using state-of-the-art spy instruments.