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The art of intelligence: lessons from a life in the CIA's clandestine service
Par Henry A. Crumpton. 2012
Former CIA Clandestine Service officer, counterterrorism expert, and ambassador-at-large recounts his career. Discusses covert operations and their value, recruitment and…
training of agents, and intelligence collection. Describes the strategies and operations used in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 2012Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Par Peter L. Bergen. 2012
CNN's national security analyst, who interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997, chronicles the terrorist leader's movements from September 11, 2001,…
until his May 2011 death at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALS in Pakistan. Highlights the decade-long hunt, the successful final mission, and the implications for al-Qaeda. Violence. 2012The secrets of the FBI
Par Ronald Kessler. 2011
Journalist and author of The Bureau (DB 55193) and The FBI (DB 37795) relates information he uncovered through research and…
interviews with bureau agents. Discusses controversial topics involving the FBI from the 1960s to 2011, including Hoover's sexual orientation and the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound. 2011What to look for in winter: a memoir in blindness
Par Candia McWilliam. 2012
Memoir of Scottish novelist McWilliam, who became functionally blind in 2006 because of the involuntary closing of her eyelids from…
a condition known as blepharospasm. McWilliam reviews her life, describes undergoing a two-part operation to restore her vision, and explores a possible psychological basis for her sightlessness. Strong language. 2010Sleeping with the enemy: Coco Chanel's secret war
Par Hal Vaughan. 2011
American diplomat and foreign correspondent uses overseas archives to document French fashion designer Coco Chanel's collaboration with the Nazis during…
World War II. Discusses Chanel's childhood; emergence on the social scene as a couture, perfume maker, and mistress of titled men; anti-Semitism; and involvement with the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS). 2011The triple agent: the al-Qaeda mole who infiltrated the CIA
Par Joby Warrick. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist details the December 30, 2009, gathering in Khost, Afghanistan, of CIA and U.S. military officials…
and Pakistani and Afghani operatives to meet Jordanian pediatrician and spy Humam Khalil al-Balawi. Relates Balawi's subsequent suicide bombing, which killed himself and seven CIA personnel. 2011The company we keep: a husband-and-wife true-life spy story
Par Robert Baer, Dayna Baer. 2011
The author of See No Evil (DB 53770), the basis for the movie Syriana, and his wife Dayna share their…
anecdotes of working for the CIA. They describe their first meeting while on assignment in the Balkans and recount falling in love years later. Some strong language. 2011Author of Wildflower (DB 70537) investigates the case of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who came to America from Germany in 1978 and…
adopted a series of blue-blood identities. Details Gerhartsreiter's schemes, including his last and biggest, when he posed as "Clark Rockefeller" and kidnapped his own daughter. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011Framed by an account of housewife and mother Greta Kuckhoff, this chronicle of resistance to the Nazis by a group…
of artists, intellectuals, and German government workers in Berlin details the actions and risks these ordinary citizens took to protest anti-Semitism--and relates the consequences. 2009Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA
Par Tim Weiner. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter investigates sixty years of the Central Intelligence Agency. Uses archival documents and interviews to illustrate that the…
agency's mission of gathering intelligence has faltered due to blunders, structural flaws, and philosophical conflicts. Posits that national security is jeopardized by the CIA's disarray. National Book Award. Bestseller. 2007Wild Bill Donovan: the spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage
Par Douglas C. Waller, Douglas Waller. 2011
Biography of William J. Donovan (1883-1959), a World War I hero and attorney whom President Franklin Roosevelt tasked with forming…
a civilian intelligence agency in 1941. Describes spy operations of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and the agency's feud with the FBI. 2011The watchers: the rise of America's surveillance state
Par Shane Harris. 2010
Journalist examines U.S. government data-mining technologies. Profiles national security advisor John Poindexter and examines his controversial total-information-awareness system and his…
role in monitoring U.S. citizens in an effort to track suspected terrorists. Discusses America's definitions of privacy and security in the Internet age. 2010Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
Par Eric Metaxas. 2010
Biography of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who was born into an aristocratic family and executed for his part in…
a failed plot to kill Adolph Hitler. Discusses Bonhoeffer's childhood, musical training, travels throughout Europe and America, and spiritual convictions. Includes excerpts from his correspondence and journal entries. 2010CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer documents his years in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tells of leading black-ops teams…
against the Taliban and offers suggestions for winning the war on terror. Some text revised or redacted after the Pentagon expressed national security concerns. Violence and strong language. 2010Fixing my gaze: a scientist's journey into seeing in three dimensions
Par Susan R. Barry. 2010
Neuroscientist explains that even after childhood surgery for strabismus, she had no depth perception. Recalls being unaware, despite her scientific…
training, that vision therapy could train her to use both eyes simultaneously. Describes the ocular exercise regimen given her by optometrist Theresa Ruggiero and her emotions upon experiencing stereopsis. 2009100 questions & answers about macular degeneration
Par Jeffrey S Heier, Jeffrey Heier. 2010
A retina specialist answers questions about the causes, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related wet and dry macular degeneration.…
Includes patient commentary and discusses the future possibilities of research trials. 2010A brotherhood of spies: the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
Par Monte Reel. 2018
Duda, an award-winning journalist and current editor at the Arizona Capitol Times, examines the sometimes fine line between treason and…
dissent by presenting 13 cases of Americans who have been accused of betraying the U.S. governmentIn 1916, at the height of World War I, Elizebeth Smith was asked to apply her language skills to an…
exciting new venture: code-breaking. For the next forty years, Smith and her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman, would play an integral role in American history. Smith used her genius to hunt Nazi spies, steal enemy secrets during both world wars, and help invent a powerful new science that shaped the course of historyFetch the devil: the Sierra Diablo murders and Nazi espionage in America
Par Clint Richmond. 2014
In 1938, Hazel Frome, the wife of a powerful executive at Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturer, set…
out on a cross-country motor trip with her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Nancy. When their car broke down in El Paso, Texas, they made the most of being stranded by staying at a posh hotel and crossing the border to Juarez, Mexico, for shopping, dining, and drinking. A week later their battered, near-nude bodies were found in the Chihuahuan Desert. This is the first narrative account of this still officially unsolved case. Contains violence