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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moore, Jim, 1935- Very special agents. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001 (OCoLC)652248859 |
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| Named Person: | Jim Moore; Jim Moore |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Moore |
| ISBN: | 0252027116 9780252027116 0252070259 9780252070259 |
| OCLC Number: | 47056310 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Pocket Books, 1997. |
| Description: | xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | 1 It Was in the Bleak December 1 -- 2 Three Detectives 16 -- 3 Gentlemen Don't Boast 31 -- 4 End of a Hundred-Year War 51 -- 5 New Battlefields 65 -- 6 New Ammunition for the Government Gun 79 -- 7 Attacking Terrorism 93 -- 8 Underworld Armorers 108 -- 9 "Unsolvable Crimes" 122 -- 10 Ladies and Gentlemen in White Coats 134 -- 11 The Birth of a Bureau 142 -- 12 Strike Force 154 -- 13 Significant Criminals 177 -- 14 Fire 193 -- 15 The Circus 208 -- 16 The Spring of '81 218 -- 17 A Wonderful Plan to Kill ATF 234 -- 18 The Un-Terrorists 244 -- 19 Deja Vu 278 -- 20 Waco 285 -- 21 Fallout 308. |
| Responsibility: | James Moore. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"A straight-on, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most effective federal agencies, told by a veteran ATF agent with 25 years' experience chasing mobsters, contract killers, hate groups, and gun-nuts. If it were a novel, it would be promoted as 'action-packed thriller,' but it's real life, folks... The ATF has given invaluable assistance in helping convict members of the Mafia, KKK, and Hell's Angels, and its crime labs have helped crack the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings, but you'd never know it, and all most of us can remember about them is their part in the tragedy at Waco." -- Tom Elliott, The Mensa Bulletin Read more...

