True Crime Books

Inspired by TV series "Prison Break " I picked this book.
I would give 2 stars for this one. Perhaps, I was looking for more "moving and exciting" story that close to Prison Break. This one is a bit slow and nothing unusual.. did not even touch my heart, considered this is a true story

I read this book six months ago and only now begin to see all the links - and I'm no conspiracy-theory nutcase. ESCAPE reads like a racy, often amusing thriller while giving the absolute truth on one of the world's scariest prisons, and fine instructions on how to escape. Yet after re-reading THE UNDERGROUND EMPIRE (the 1980s tome on governments using crooks) the added layers of ESCAPE began to show. There are puzzles, joke names (not unusual when names are changed to protect the guilty), slices of numerology, mathematical sequences and some real poetry concealed in the text (for example, a weather-stained wall described as a colorful mural, followed by lunch: ` ...a dark bROTH CO-mingling with...' my CAPS reveal Rothko); yet it is all true. This man was the only European to break out, and almost everyone he meets on the way appears as though they were meant to pass through like some Zen journey. ESCAPE reads at times like Dashiell Hammett and then an early Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) with revelations from the Illuminati. The feeling of being manipulated as by THE MAGUS. My second thought was the story is some elaborate journalists' practical joke such as Southern/Hoffenberg's CANDY. Those books are all fiction, this is not - the history is in the newspapers, although only the paper archives as the trail goes cold and transforms with the dawn of the internet age. ESCAPE is a book that won't leave you alone. There is more in this book with every reading

Most of us might pass by gut-wrenching stories of prison escapes, but this true prison break story breaks the mold. It is really a story of loyalty and friendship.
Without McMillan's passionate girlfriend and his enduring friends he would have never managed the near-impossible jailbreak. Every chapter left me wanting more, and as ever, the truth is stranger than fiction.


Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

Thailand's Klong Prem prison has become a synonym for Asian hell-holes, a reputation not reduced by the large numbers of jail tourists who schedule a visit in their itineraries to their imprisoned countrymen and women between shopping at the floating market and swilling Singha beer in a Patpong girlie bar.
David McMillan was held in the `Bangkok Hilton' awaiting trial on drug charges in the mid-`90s for almost two years. If his trial had ended the way most local trials do, he might still be there today, as sentences range between thirty and ninety-nine years. Before his trial ended, McMillan escaped, becoming the first Westerner to successfully break out of Klong Prem, a feat no one has yet repeated.
ESCAPE is not the usual, crying, my-life-in-hell story. Firstly, the author makes no excuses for his life as a drug smuggler. Emotional responses to the good, the bad and the ugly in the 12,000-strong prison complex are reported through the reactions of the fifty or more fellow inmates who McMillan describes as he relentlessly pursues his search for the perfect escape plan.
Secondly, the circumstances of how McMillan came to be arrested in Chinatown and why so many agencies are set against him are revealed in the style of a thriller. Despite the author appearing often cold and ruthless, this reader could not help being alongside him as both accomplices and plans fall away.
Supporting characters are surprisingly varied for the closed environment: not only Eddie the junkie-courier from Switzerland, Chang the Taiwanese cook, Kelvin the sorrowful Hawaiian, Rick the conniving English bar owner, but also Germans pretending to be barons, Nigerians actually princes, young clubbers, jaded Americans, mysterious Chinese and a mad anarchist-scientist serving fifty years' for being the translator on a Canadian drug deal. As well, a motley collection of languishing Australians, surreally presented at a real embassy Christmas party inside the prison grounds.
Throughout escape plans A-to-Z (including a comic attempt to brazen through the corridors dressed as UN medics pretending to evacuate prisoners during an epidemic), McMillan is supported or hindered by those closest to him, including his girlfriend, a part-time jazz singer from New Zealand.
Despite the hard-boiled waterfront-reporter voice of the author, I couldn't help wondering if the true McMillan began as one of the near-suicides in the remand section, quickly passed aside in the early chapters, before changing into the one who got away. My copy was published in Singapore where the death penalty still applies; appropriate for a book that never laments, apologises or preaches, yet tells more in fewer words about people facing death or oblivion than books twice as thick.

I kept turning the pages on this one: a surprise for me because I don't like drug-smugglers and was expecting something smug from the one who got away. Every chapter is a self-contained story building up to the big night. Actually, the big night becomes less important since we know he got out but that doesn't spoil the story any more than knowing Charles de Gaulle wasn't assassinated in Day of the Jackal. Most of the people David meets in the prison are instantly real. I, like most readers, would want more of the life that led to the arrest and what happened next. I suppose that's coming and there couldn't be more packed in to a book 300 pages long. ESCAPE is a book I'll read again and don't hesitate to recommend to all readers.

This book moved me!!! It's sheer creepiness, and macabe contents made me blaze through it, as the authors words and accounts of "evil" ran chills down my spine! I was strangely facsinated by the acts of the sick monsters that make up this book. I loved every moment of this book, but was sad because of course they are all real!! It's a sad testament to these monsters in our society, and will make you wonder if that reclusive neighbor is only that, or more? This book started my whole facsination with true crime, and delving into this dark world has never thrilled me more than reading Hazelwood's books. He inspries me to want to be a criminal profiler, and the pictures were an added bonus. This book was a dark, sweetly evil treat.

I've read several books on criminal profiling, and had always been meaning to read this one. Hazelwood is a giant in the field, so pretty much any book about him is required reading for a criminal profiling junkie like myself.

I have to agree with previous reviewers that this book starts out in a disorganized, herky jerky fashion with abrupt transitions between Hazelwood's personal biography and the various cases he has worked on. This disorganized style makes it difficult to really appreciate the talents of Hazelwood, and the cases he has solved. I found at least 2-3 typos, and the whole book seemed to be written and edited with not enough care.

The good news is that about half-way through, the book comes together becoming a lot more coherent, and the cases presented which Hazelwood solves become more compelling. The Paul Barnardo-Karla Homolka couple/ rapist-murder team is well worn territory in profiling books, but we get Hazelwood's analysis of Karla Homolka, which differs somewhat with what John Douglas's has written, and significantly different than what Gregg McCrary expressed in his book, "The Unknown Darkness". (McCrary basically felt Karla Homolka was as guilty as Paul Barnardo, and hardly the "victim" she claimed to be. Hazelwood certainly feels Homolka is responsible for her crimes, but would have never committed them if not driven by Barnardo to do so.)

Even though I found this to be a weak biography, Hazelwood comes across as an authoritative figure, with a lot of credibility and experience to back up his claims and observations about the depraved individuals he studies. Unlike other profiling books, we get pretty blunt assessments of what is was like in the FBI, and discover that FBI profilers are hardly a chummy group, with major rifts in this elite club. it is interesting to learn that Hazelwood became fascinated with sexual predators and sexual deviants for the same reason lions, tigers and bears are popular zoo animals: Because they are dangerous.

Still one can't help wish that each chapter was more fleshed out, and I couldn't help think while reading many of the cases "Is that all?" or "What about that?". Hazelwood's talents and experience deserve a much better telling of his story.

For those crime profiling junkies, I give this a marginal recommendation, but if your are new to this genre there are much better books to start. (I'd recommend "Mindhunter", by John Douglas, if pressed for a single book.)

I was hoping for a synthesis of findings, rather than a rambling, never-ending series of anecdotes. Further, the latest evidence on criminal profiling is at best mixed - indicating little scientific credibility or practical usefulness.

It is a shame that Stephen Michaud let Roy Hazelwood contribute to this book. If Stephen Michaud would have done it alone, I think it would have been great. Unfortunately that was not the case.

For those who have not read Roy Hazelwood's work, let me explain that it has been my experience as hard core criminology and profile researcher, that his books are more about him and his ego (if you will) then the subject itself.

Roy Hazelwood needs to concentrate on setting constructive examples of his very broad and interesting experience...yet we only get information from him like we are reading a resume.

Other then that, The book has some good information, but if you have other books from Stephen Michaud, you will see some repetition. Not a must.

This book uses Roy Hazelwood's experiences to show the evolution of the current investigative tools and techniques used for violent sex crimes. Given the success of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, much of the material here is now pretty well known and commonly accepted. It was quite enlightening to be reminded that the investigation of these crimes was once treated very differently. Hazelwood's focus on research helped him develop new tools and techniques that have terrifically improved both the ability to capture these deviant criminals, as well as the reputations of the dedicated investigators who persue them.

Unfortunately, the author's tendancy to jump around significantly weakens the book. He repeatedly interrupts his descriptions of various investigations to insert details from other investigations. While it looks like he's attempting to show the parallels that enabled Hazelwood to develop his theories, it makes it difficult to keep the details straight and is sometimes quite confusing. Several times I found myself backing up and re-reading sections to clarify the point the author was trying to make.

This book, by its very nature, includes a great deal of disturbing material. Readers that do not care for violence or graphic content should be aware that they are likely to find this book highly uncomfortable. I would also suggest that this book is appropriate only for the most mature young readers.

Blood Bankers collates vivid insider stories on the pillage of developing countries by international banks and the piracy of finance by corrupt leaders. The book accounts for the fact that, in spite of immense financial flows to the Third World, many countries have not witnessed the expected benefits, and indeed have been damaged by corruption and debt.

An Amazing read! I didn't know what I never knew! After reading this book twice, I realize that International Bankers of all varieties dominate the buisness world and are at fault for irresponsible lending to many 'developing' nations. A result of which is massive poverty and wealth inequality througout the world.
A timely and revealing look at the origins of the Iraq war are an excellent reminder of power of these wealthy few.

Everyone should buy this book.

This book is an eye-opening account of the financial chicanery that lay behind countless poorly planned, badly executed, over-priced and economically unviable development projects that were undertaken in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. Henry exposes the role played by leading international financial institutions in fueling the growth of dubious forms of transnational economic activity and shows how their behavior has been tolerated and even encouraged by the IMF, the World Bank and the US Treasury. He also sheds light on the influence that international financial interests have had on political developments in the third world - from the overthrow of Allende's elected government in Chile and the funding provided to Nicaragua's Contra rebels, to the support of thieving dictators like Ferdinand Marcos, General Somoza and Carlos Salinas, just to mention a few.

"The Blood Bankers" is an important contribution to our understanding of global financial instability. Most often, liberalized (legitimate) capital markets, international trade, state power, and international regulatory institutions are cited as the causes of destabilization. However, J. Henry allows us to look behind these forces and bodies to see how the liberalization of the global economy has unleashed illicit and/ or immoral financial forces, often acting through otherwise legitimate enterprises. Thus, "The Blood Bankers" gives us another level of understanding and critique of the agents of globalization. Without understanding the underground players, it would be impossible to fully understand the instability of modern international markets.

Major U.S. banks have knowingly dealt with the corrupt elites of the world's developing countries.
They have harbored capital flight from wealthy investors who had lost confidence in their country.
They have extended loans to corrupt industrialists, who promptly skimmed the profits and, through their political connections, convinced the national governments to guarantee the loans, placing the burden on the backs of the poor.
They have lent money to violently repressive military dictators.
They have accepted bribes; they have offered bribes; they have turned a blind eye to untold human suffering.

I didnt really enjoy this book that much. It was kind of straight forward writing that definately did not grab me.
Maybe because the story just wasnt that unusual or fascinating, i dont know. Also the wife was kind of a slut so i had less sympathy for her than i had did for other victims in other crime books i have read. If you like this kind of book, then read "She wanted it all". Now that was a great book, maybe because the mother was so dispicable.

Did not put this book down from start to finish, kept me up all, but well worth the sacrifice. This was just one of those great reads that tugged at the heartstrings, and kept me wanting more. True crime at it's finest.

HE SURE TRIED TO COVER HIS TRACKS. THANK GOD IT DIDN'T WORK. VERY INTERESTING STORY AND FAST-PACED.

I found the story interesting but the book itself jumps around too much in time. One chapter is after her death and then it relates interviews with witnesses before her death etc. Just found it hard to follow.

This 304 page murder mystery could have been condensed into 200 pages. The events leading up to and including the brutal killing of Krintine Smith are chronolicalled in this book by Patricia Springer. The story is excellent. The author is able to grab hold of the reader and keep the suspense building. However, the account reaches a point where the reader wants to shout, "We've heard this before, stop the rehashing, and get on with the story."
Eventually the story does end. The bad guy gets caught, admits to his crime, and finally becomes incarcerated. The only unresolved issue is where is the body. The author explores several possibilities, but the whereabouts is never uncovered.

I wrote the author as to why a man emerging from a fall into a raging river would not first receive medical documentation of injuries. His broken hip would have been noted right then. Maybe this was brought up in the civil suit Tom filed later, but no mention is made in the book.

Tom would have been screaming for the truckers to call an ambulance, as well as police, had he known what was coming at the station.

I thought it reads very well in the third person, except for being a bit awkward when Tink is present. Those parts might have read better in first person. Perhaps mixing them would not work well, since she's actually reconstructing Tom's story, as told to her.

It's a valuable story that needed telling.

As one reviewer has noted, this is not a typical addition to the true crime genre. It shares much in common with Strange Piece of Paradise in that both are attempts by a victim/family member to depict the aftermath of a crime. Where Terri Jentz had to confront years of not knowing who her attacker was, Jeanine Cummins and family had to face having a beloved family member being accused of killing two other beloved family members.

It's hard to review a book such as this without a certain amount of sympathy entering into one's judgment. It is for me, at least. This is not the best written non-fiction book you'll ever read, nor is the prose in it the most fluid. It is also, because of Cummins' decision to tell this in the third-person, the most emotionally wrought. But it is better written than most first person accounts I've read. Cummins takes considerable pains to bring Julie and Robin Kerry to life, to make the reader feel the loss Cummins and her family felt. The horror of their deaths (and the nature of their deaths) is compounded when Cummins' brother is accused of their murders.

This is the story of the death of innocence, both literal and figurative. By the time the murders are caught, turn on each other and three are sentenced to death there little sense of justice for the family. Two girls have been gang-raped and murdered, one of the bodies has never been found. The survivor of the attacks has been first branded the likely suspect by the press then must relive the events over and over, in the trials and the subsequent parole hearings. As if this isn't enough agony, they must endure having the convicted murderers still claim their innocence and blame one of the victims. The question of Why? remains unanswered by the perpetrators and possibly unanswerable.

I had this book on my book shelf for a while and hesitated to read it because I knew that it would be painful and depressing. This is the first book that I have read regarding true crime where you really feel to the core the effects and aftermath on the living. This book is excellent, well written, and one of the few books you read that will stay with you and effect how you process stories that you read and watch in the future. After reading this, you truly comprehend the pain and lasting effects that violence has on everyone left behind.

I have little to add to the other reviewers here. But as one who has written about victims myself, I believe this is the best account I've ever read of the devastation criminals leave in their wake.

Read this not merely to learn about a heinous crime or evil men. Read it to meet two wonderful young women, or maybe three -- Julie and Robin, the victims, and Jeanine Cummins, the author.

I went to high school with Robin and Julie. I can't drive over the Mississippi River without thinking about them. The newspaper articles, and TV interviews in St Louis were mainly focused on Tom's (the cousin) guilt, and these "mystery 4 men". I was glad to hear a book had been written from "their" point of view. When I say "their" I mean Robin and Julie. Robin and Julie are gone, and no longer have a voice for themselves, so Jeanine did the best she could to capture this horrible moment in time, and the aftermath it caused.

I feel that as much hatred that she COULD have to the four men that murdered her cousins, and let her brother be blamed for the crimes, Jeanine was fair, and kind to the men. She did not make excuses for their actions, but she did explain how a fun night out, a decision to rob, could turn so dangerous and deadly in minutes.

I became aware of this book only recently. I live in Athens and someone told me to read this book because of the history and drama. I moved here in 2003 and I learned so much about this area. It was neat reading about people I've met while living here (The Huffs in Tin Can Holler). I always considered my life and childhood to be traumatic with an alcoholic father and growing up poor. With this book I realized I've had a better life than most of the people in this book. It made me appreciate what I have and the people in my life. I cried when I read about Beluah having to search for food because of Randy. Last weekend I visited Whispering Pines where Grace is buried and Sims Road where the family's history began. I took pictures and caught some orbs in some of the images. If you live near here and believe in the supernatural you should visit the areas in the book, it will give you the creeps.

Rozetta,
You are a brave, unique individual. God bless you for your strength to stand up for others who suffer at the hands of abusers. You will never know of all the help you are giving others since you won't hear from many of them, but KNOW that your voice will often be the salvation for past and future victims of domestic violence and child abuse. Your book is so well written and easy to understand. I read 95% of it the first week I purchased it. Though I have never experienced abuse, I have seen firsthand the tremendous damage done to victims and how many never recover or tell, especially if they aren't believed by those who should be protecting them. So thank you Rozetta, for believing in victims, understanding & loving them, and for sharing your very personal, tragic story. Not only did you survive so many horrendous situations in your childhood, not to mention losing your very own mother at such a young age, you have RISEN ABOVE it all by reaching out to others and by just being the lovely, giving person that you are. I will always treasure my autographed copy of 'Tragedy in Tin Can Holler'. It is an honor to know you Rozetta. Blessings!

"Tragedy in Tin Can Holler" is one of the most chilling books I have ever read. Rozetta Mowery tells this true story in a direct and compelling way. Its a must read story detailing bizarre and tragic events in the author's life. Mowery's hidden family secrets are told in an uncensored unveiling of murders and mayhem that will leave you stunned by the evil and demonic murder of her mother and the legacy left by her vicious serial killer family matriarch. Rozetta Mowery's story has turned a family tragedy into a triumphant life for herself and the communities she serves. She exemplifies strength, victory and courage with a strong dedication to help others overcome domestic violence. You must read this book. I could not put it down.





Confessions of a Feng Shui Ghost-Buster

This is the best book I have every read and I don`t read to much it`s a sad true story worth reading I tell everyone about this book and that makes them want to get this book, This book is worth buying. Star

I have read alot of books, but this is one that will stay with you...A very well written, no boring parts book that you will not want to put down until you are finished...The author is a very admirable person to not just accept her past and forget about it..A must read...

The book did not have enough information to make it interesting. Very short stories on modern slavery in a civilized (?) world. It makes you wonder what makes some people feel they have the right to rule someone else. I felt like its stories were just "SAME CRIME"..."DIFFERENT DAY". Did not hold my interest.

This is light reading about a very complex subject. Each terrible tale asks more questions than it tells. I can't imagine that this book was meant to be anything other than a cheap thrill.

Each chapter is a different story of modern slavery, mostly in the civilized world, concentrating on Britain and the US. However, many chapters are only half a dozen pages long; the reader is left with many questions. Some of these cases are extremely interesting and should be books in their own rights.

Slaves girls takes you into a world, you'd like to believe doesn't exsist.
The book goes onto detail various crimes, of human enslavement. I would've liked a more In-depth look into Slavery and sex Crimes, however this book contains only short chapters.
This book held my interest completely, and left my wanting more.
I Like the writing style, but it could've been perfected.
I read alot of true crime books, I'd suggest this to anyone interested in True Crime.
Thank You for Reading my book Review and Happy Reading!!!!

This book is decent. Every chapter is a different story of girls that are held captive around the world. Each chapter is fairly short (10 - 20 pages) and only gives a quick version and not many details. This book is alright but almost reads like a book report.

This is the best CIA book according to old CIA hands.
It doesn't tell you that the CIA people planned the JFK assassination,.... but it sure does tell you that Nosenko the KGB defector who told them the KGB didn't control Oswald,...was tortured and urged to change his story,...and WHO treated Nosenko so harshly.
You can then deduce that those same agents were the JFK assassins.

This is one of the anti-Angleton books. You you want to understand Angelton's approach to counter-intelligence, I would recommend Edward Jay Epstein's "Deception" instead.

The term, "wilderness of mirrors," is still used today in counterintelligence circles to denote the feelings of paranoia that sometimes develop in the byzantine business of spyhunting, when one is no longer able to distinguish between what is real and what is illusion. When conjuring up images of this precise phenomenon, no name rings louder than that of James Jesus Angleton, who himself was enveloped and ultimately destroyed by his obsession with uncovering a "mole" within the CIA.

Martin's brief account of the CIA's largely unsuccessful efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War alternates between the stories of "Jim" Angleton and "Bill" Harvey, two CIA trailblazers who undoubtedly left their marks in their profession. What's unfortunate is that while they may have scored some early successes, they spent the latter parts of their careers in shambles, with both resigning under hostile circumstances. Especially in Angleton's case, it is tough to objectively determine whether he did more good than bad.

For a more detailed account of the CI fiasco involving Angleton, Golitsin, and Nosenko, check out David Wise's "Molehunt."

This book, which relates the ongoing war between the CIA and the KGB, focuses on the activities of William K. Harvey, a gun-totin' ex-FBI agent (who does not seem to have entirely evolved in a social sense), and James Jesus Angleton, a Yale graduate who lived first in Italy and then in England, where he learned the fine arts of counter-espionage at the knees, as it were, of Kim Philby, and was in charge of counter-espionage at the CIA. The revelation that the latter was a KGB penetration agent in British Intelligence seems to have engendered extreme paranoia in the former, who was ever after on the lookout for moles in the Agency (and was even suspected by some of his colleagues of being one himself).

The tales of covert operations range from the amusing (an agent loitering in a park to make a dead-letter drop being arrested as a potential child molester) to the appalling (the dastardly enticement of the Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko with promises of a salaried job and then keeping him in what was tantamount to a cage for 1277 days (292 of which were devoted to interrogation) [p, 171], all because of the dubious word of Anatoli Golitsin, a previous defector--living high off the hog at taxpayer expense--who warned that the next defector would be a KGB plant.). Angleton placed his faith unstintingly in Golitsin, whose wild scenarios had Averell Harriman, a former United States ambassador to the Soviet Union, cast as a KGB agent. It never seems to have occurred to Angleton that Golitsin may have been the KGB plant, intent on making mischief.

The title, "Wilderness of Mirrors," was apparently coined by Angleton, who was a poet in his spare time. It refers to the labyrinthine world of espionage into which one is "lured deeper and deeper ... pursuing the traces of Soviet plots, both real and imagined, each step taking [one] farther into a bewildering world of intrigue ... [p. 10].

The author notes the justification of the battle between the CIA and the KGB, but he also cites the absurdity of its reality. "The careers of Angleton and Harvey were mired in absurdities, not the least of which was that they habitually violated the democratic freedoms they were sworn to defend . . . Immersed in duplicity and insulated by secrecy, they developed survival mechanisms and behavior patterns that by any rational standard were bizarre. The forced inbreeding of secrecy spawned mutant deeds and thoughts. Loyalty demanded dishonesty, and duty was a thieves' game. The game attracted strange men and slowly twisted them until something snapped. There were no winners or losers in this game, only victims" [p. 226].

Since its establishment in 1947, CIA has enjoyed some modest successes as an agent for regime change, but does not to appear to have been a very effective intelligence agency. Yet during the first 25 years of its existence under the freewheeling influence of the many WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) veterans who formed its original cadre, it certainly seems to have been an interesting place to work. Indeed its halls were apparently filled with interesting and colorful characters who may or may not have been very good intelligence officers, but who were never boring. This very good book provides the story of two such characters who were at the heart of the CIA counterintelligence program.

James Jesus Angleton was clearly CIA material with his WWII OSS experience, Ivy League education, and international background. Yet he was also by all accounts one the strangest intelligence officers CIA ever recruited. An orchid growing intellectual, Angleton began his long involvement with counterintelligence with the OSS under the tutorship of Kim Philby, who even then was a Soviet mole. He appeared to thrive on the intellectual challenges presented by convoluted and complex work that was counterintelligence. From the first he applied himself to seeking out Soviet agents within CIA with the passion and zealotry of a Jesuit converting a heretic. In the end his efforts failed to find real evidence of Soviet penetration of CIA, but in the notorious `mole' search he initiated succeeded in virtually destroying its ability to run clandestine operations against the Soviets. Ironically for all his zeal, Angleton was unable to recognize that his mentor and friend Philby was a Soviet plant in heart of the delicate U.S. and UK intelligence relationship.

William King Harvey was Angleton's complete opposite in every respect. He was a small town lawyer turned FBI agent who was sacked because his behavior came too close to breaking the number one rule of the FBI in the post war period, don't embarrasses Mr. Hoover. Somewhat like Angleton however, Harvey had developed a passion for counterintelligence work and when he was sacked was probably the FBI's leading expert in this arcane subject. The newly created CIA was struggling to create a counterintelligence program and was happy to take Harvey on board. He and Angleton quickly learned to loathe each other. The hard drinking, womanizing Harvey tended to shoot from the hip, while the aesthetic Angleton tended to move carefully and intellectually. Fortunately Harvey decided that he would like the rough and tumble of overseas work and got a plume assignment in the then divided city of Berlin where he was clearly at home. Prior to taking this assignment however, Harvey presented CIA with what in the end was an accurate argument that Philby was indeed a Soviet plant.

In the end the careers of both men were destroyed by the very things that made them effective counterintelligence agents and the sea changes that shook CIA in the 1970's

I am in school for Criminal Jutice and plan to start Police Academy in a few months. All I know about being a cop is that something is pushing me to do it. I am not fully aware yet of everything I am getting into, but something keeps me from giving up. This my life long dream and passion. After reading this book it gave me so much more courage and wisdom to know that I can make a difference. Most people would fear what Randy has encountered, but I pray to do the same things. I know it will not be easy, but with prayer and faith, anything can happen. This book was very educational to me, and I loved every story. Great job!! *Kerista*

The author Sgt Sutton is actually a lieutenant in my police agency and I, for one, feel priveleged we have a man that has gone through all this in this book as a head in my police dept! God bless him and officers all around this world!

This book is better than other cop memoirs because much of it is the unvarnished, unpainted skinny on real police work. Most of the stories are depressing and sad and frightening. Morons and whack-jobs and bottom-feeders are who cops deal with.

The book is well-written, the subject is interesting, and the stories are realistic and plausible. I read the book in one evening. It's THAT engrossing.

Randy Sutton compiles a collection of true cop stories that will leave you reeling. Devoid of any gooey sentiment but true to the street beat that these cops work. At times scary, depressing, uplifting and heroic these cops tell a story of sacrifice, family and the failure of society. Not an easy book to get through at times but highly recommended.

I'm a student at Eastern Kentucky University majoring in Police Studies in hopes of becoming a police officer. When walking through Wal-Mart, this book caught my eye, and although school has turned me against reading, I bought it anyways. Later that day, I sat down and began to read the book, and couldn't put it down. I felt that I was living Sgt. Sutton's life right there in my living room. This is a very powerful book!