Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786867078 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great" according to Gina Jacobs. Great. "Worth the Money" according to ldswoman. 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 . 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 bunc
The bureau had only been accepting women for eight years when DeLong joined in 1980, and her training at Quantico included brutal harassment by instructors determined to "wash out" any female applicant. I could cut your head off. Ultimately, she made friends and got ahead. Or do you want me to tear your heart out?" The frank, conversational text ably captures the forceful personality of a female pioneer. An early practitioner of profiling, the analysis of crime data for what it reveals about the perpetrator, DeLong handled such ugly cases that she and her partner at one point were known as "the Gruesome Twosome." Her arrests included child molesters, rapists, and serial killers; among th
3. Candice DeLong has been called a real-life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco. She traces the unusual career path that led her to crime fighting, and recounts the incredible obstacles she faced as a woman and as a fledgling agent. TYMURS-(Bureau acronym for Tylenol Murders)8 victims, 1982. Terrorist Organization, 198184. The Burlington Rapist (Illinois serial rapist), 1984. She takes readers step by step through the profiling process and shows how she helped solve a number of incredible cases. 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 dedicat