Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786867078 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Wendy Smith. Readers may well find themselves looking nervously over their shoulders after finishing this memoir by Candice DeLong, who met a lot of Hannibal Lecter's soul mates during her 20 years as an FBI agent. (Yell "Fire!" rather than "Help!" she advises; it attracts more attention.) Not that human nature's darker side was a surprise to DeLong, who came to the FBI from a job as head nurse in a maximum security psychiatric ward, where a violent paranoid schizophrenic crooned at her, "You better pray I never get out of these restraints. I could cut your head off. Yet she had the toughness to survive and the good sense to know when to ignore her male colleagues' barbed jokes and wh
Great Gina Jacobs Great. Worth the Money I bought this book because I happened to see it on a library shelf and thumbed through it. I could hardly put it down, but it wasn't my local library, so I couldn't check it out that day. I was so intrigued by it I just clicked into Amazon.com and bought it immediately.It's written in a wonderful flowing style that takes you . Good story Roger Paulding DeLong tells a good story, one you will not want to miss if you are interested in true crime and the FBI. Of course, she isn't Clarice Starling, but she comes damned close. While her story is not as exciting as Danny " No Heroes" Coulson, she was a woman fighting her way through a bunch of politically incorrect chauvinistic m
The Lecherous Landlord was the first and most significant Discrimination in Housing case in the history of the Chicago FBI. Undercover work on UNABOM, including an afternoon with Ted Kaczynski on his arrest day, April 3, 1996.. She has tailed terrorists, gone undercover as a gangsters moll, and posed as the madam for a call-girl ring. 6. A remarkable portrait of courage and grace under fire, Special Agent offers a missing chapter to the annals of law enforcement and a dramatic and often funny portrait of an extraordinary woman who has dedicated her heart and soul to the crusade against crime.Candice DeLongs Top Cases: 1. 5. She has been on the front lines of some of the FBIs most gripping and memorable cases, including being chosen as one of the three agents to carry out the manhunt for the Unabomber in Lincoln, Montana. 3. She takes readers step by step through the profiling process and shows how she helped solve a number of incredible cases. TYMURS-(Bureau acronym for Tylenol Murders)8 victims, 1982. Now for the first time she reveals the dangers and rewards of being a woman on the front lines of the worlds most powerful law enforcement agency. Finally, she gives the true, insiders story behind the investigation that led to the arrest of the Unabomberincluding information that the media cant or wont