The Street Agent

The Street Agent
Author: Wayne Manis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2017-08
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780996714907

Within the FBI, the street agent is known as the heart of the Bureau. He or she discovers and detects criminal activity then decides how best to attack it. Once the target is defined and a plan is formulated, the street agent hits the bricks and systematically dismantles and destroys the criminal enterprise. Wayne Manis was known as a street agent and few agents in the history of the FBI have traveled as diverse a course as he did during his career. On the extreme left, he was undercover with the violent faction of The Weather Underground. On the extreme right, he worked with the Ku Klux Klan and investigated the Aryan Nations and somewhere in between with the Mafia and their related organized crime figures. As a team leader of an FBI SWAT Team, he engaged bank robbers, fugitives and terrorists in armed confrontations and participated in his share of shootings and killings; not killings of anonymous or unfamiliar persons but people he knew, some in his community where he knew members of their family. They were people he pursued and investigated for years. Their stories intertwine with his. These stories are personal to the author and compelling. Near the end of his fascinating career, Wayne Manis spearheaded the F.B.I s largest domestic terrorism investigation prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Directed at a white supremacist group known as The Order, he led a team of agents in the search for terrorists who threatened the members of the U. S. Congress and sent them a formal Declaration of War. They assassinated their enemies, committed multiple bombings, and robberies, including a 3.6 million dollar robbery of a Brink s armored truck. With their stolen money, they purchased state of the art weaponry to engage the FBI in armed confrontations. The investigation was the #1 case in the FBI and the Director was briefed daily on its progress. As the case agent in charge of the investigation, author Wayne Manis lived this war between the FBI Agents and the terrorists and survived a fiery gun battle in a secluded hideout with the terrorist group s leader. The Street Agent contains selected stories in which Wayne Manis was the case agent and takes the reader into the fast moving, pulsating excitement of the chase and confrontation with his SWAT Team and the breathtaking life as an undercover operative. Events are related through the author s eyes as they unfolded with terrorists, Klansmen, mobsters, and murderers. The author, now able to tell the tale of these incredible cases, gives the reader a no-holds-barred book providing a view inside the FBI on the street level where courage is an absolute necessity and dedication and resolution never-ending.

American Radical

American Radical
Author: Tamer Elnoury
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101986174

The explosive New York Times bestselling memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11, 2001. Its express purpose was to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals were to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way as possible. It was a furious race against the clock for Elnoury and his unit to stop them before they could implement their plans. Yet the techniques were as old as time: listen, record, and prove terrorist intent. It's no secret that federal agencies have waged a broad, global war against terror, through and after the war in Afghanistan. But for the first time, in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero: To many Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even existed, let alone the vital and dangerous work they have done keeping all Americans safe.

Ghost

Ghost
Author: Michael R. McGowan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250136652

The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael R. McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. Ghost is the ultimate insider's account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government, and a testament to the incredible work of the FBI.

Making Jack Falcone

Making Jack Falcone
Author: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1668008572

This fascinating work offers the untold true story of the highly decorated FBI agent who goes deep undercover to bring down one of La Cosa Nostra's most notorious crime families.

Special Agent Man

Special Agent Man
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0914090887

For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the academy to retirement, with exciting and engaging anecdotes about SWAT teams, counterterrorism activities, and undercover assignments. At the same time, it challenges the stereotype of FBI agents as arrogant, case-stealing, suit-wearing stiffs with representations of real people who carry badges and guns. With honest, self-deprecating humor, Steve Moore's narrative details his successes and his mistakes, the trauma the job inflicted on his marriage, his triumph over the aggressive cancer that took him out of the field for a year, and his return to the Bureau with renewed vigor and dedication to take on some of the most thrilling assignments of his career. Steve Moore is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who had assignments as a SWAT team operator, sniper, pilot, counterterrorist, and undercover agent. He received multiple awards from the Department of Justice before his retirement in 2008, has written two episodes for an FBI-themed TV series, and is a regular commentator for Headline News. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California.

Reckonings of an FBI Agent

Reckonings of an FBI Agent
Author: David Kamel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-11-14
Genre: Detectives
ISBN:

What's it really like being an FBI Special Agent? That's just one of the questions answered in David Kamel's compelling memoir, Reckonings of an FBI Agent. Beginning with his teenage dream of becoming an FBI agent, Kamel invites you to join him on a wild ride from his days as a high school cross-country star, through the nerve-wracking agent application process, and all the way to the very last hours of a long, diverse, and exciting career. A master of the art of subject interviews, Kamel reveals how he used his investigative approach to collect overwhelming evidence that led to guilty pleas and trial convictions in every one of his cases. Reckonings of an FBI Agent takes you through wealthy undercover roles, SWAT missions, kidnappings, and around the globe-from a standoff in Montana to diamond training in Antwerp, Belgium, and Yellowknife, NWT Canada-and offers a fascinating glimpse inside the mind of an FBI Special Agent who specialized in white-collar crimes and counter-terrorism matters.

Under and Alone

Under and Alone
Author: William Queen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-06-26
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0812969529

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was kicking-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement. Nor did Queen suspect that he would penetrate the gang so successfully that he would become a fully “patched-in” member, eventually rising through their ranks to the office of treasurer, where he had unprecedented access to evidence of their criminal activity. After Queen spent twenty-eight months as “Billy St. John,” the bearded, beer-swilling, Harley-riding gang-banger, the truth of his identity became blurry, even to himself. During his initial “prospecting” phase, Queen was at the mercy of crank-fueled criminal psychopaths who sought to have him test his mettle and prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling (and doing) drugs, to arms trafficking, stealing motorcycles, driving getaway cars, and, in one shocking instance, stitching up the face of a Mongol “ol’ lady” after a particularly brutal beating at the hands of her boyfriend. Yet despite the constant criminality of the gang, for whom planning cop killings and gang rapes were business as usual, Queen also came to see the genuine camaraderie they shared. When his lengthy undercover work totally isolated Queen from family, his friends, and ATF colleagues, the Mongols felt like the only family he had left. “I had no doubt these guys genuinely loved Billy St. John and would have laid down their lives for him. But they wouldn’t hesitate to murder Billy Queen.” From Queen’s first sleight of hand with a line of methamphetamine in front of him and a knife at his throat, to the fearsome face-off with their decades-old enemy, the Hell’s Angels (a brawl that left three bikers dead), to the heartbreaking scene of a father ostracized at Parents’ Night because his deranged-outlaw appearance precluded any interaction with regular citizens, Under and Alone is a breathless, adrenaline-charged read that puts you on the street with some of the most dangerous men in America and with the law enforcement agents who risk everything to bring them in.

Supplementary Excavations at the Kirk Street Agents' House, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts

Supplementary Excavations at the Kirk Street Agents' House, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts
Author: William A. Griswold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN:

...Brief summary of the 2001 archaeological investigations conducted at the Kirk Street Agents' House, Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts; archeological excavation was conducted at the site in response to plans to construct an accessibility ramp and porch behind the site...

The Last Undercover

The Last Undercover
Author: Bob Hamer
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1599951800

Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In undercover operations Hamer posed as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last undercover assignment-and his hardest-was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Now, looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Bob tells us of the challenges he endured and overcame as he stared the dark side of humanity in the face-and never blinked. It is rare for an agent to serve undercover long-term, but he made a career out of a job that can completely consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through all of this Bob found a way to remain true to his faith, and always put his family before his work.