In the president's secret service
Subtitle: behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect
By: Ronald Kessler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780307461353
Subjects: United States. -- Secret Service -- History; Secret service -- United States -- History; Presidents -- Protection -- United States
Description: Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and Cabinet officers and their families are really like. If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, "They would scream."
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Supervise; title: Lancer; title: Volunteer; title: Threats; title: Searchlight; title: Daro; title: Passkey; title: Crown; title: Jackal; title: Deacon; title: Stagecoach; title: Rawhide; title: Rainbow; title: Hogan's alley; title: "I forgot to duck"; title: The big show; title: Timberwolf; title: A psychic's vision; title: Eagle; title: Cutting corners; title: POTUS; title: Shutting down magnetometers; title: Trailblazer; title: Living on borrowed time; title: Turquoise and Twinkle; title: Angler; title: Renegade; title: Grenade; title: Padding statistics; title: Dereliction of duty.