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Ghost : my thirty years as an FBI undercover agent
- Title
- Ghost : my thirty years as an FBI undercover agent / Michael R. McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo.
- Author
- McGowan, Michael (Michael R.)
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-9862 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pezzullo, Ralph
- Description
- viii, 309 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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 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 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, makes the busts, and carries 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Contents
- Stunned -- Rub some dirt on it -- Police work -- Quantico -- FBI SWAT -- Eastload -- Pakistani gold -- Betrayal -- Redemption -- The Russian mob -- The Italian mob -case #1 -- The Italian mob -case #2 [double sessions] -- Operation Double Sessions -part two -- The Italian mob -case #3 -- The outlaws -- The Sinaloa cartel -part one -- The Sinaloa cartel -part two -- Murder for hire -- Bon voyage.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9862
- ISBN
- 9781250136657
- 1250136652
- LCCN
- 2018017178
- OCLC
- 1022497565
- Author
- McGowan, Michael (Michael R.), author.
- Title
- Ghost : my thirty years as an FBI undercover agent / Michael R. McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Pezzullo, Ralph, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9862