In this latest blog post for the Friday's "Forgotten" Books feature hosted by Patti Abbott I thought this particular offering would be topical, considering how the FBI has been so much in the news lately (and since the protagonist of my Scott Drayco series is a former FBI agent).
The FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008, is a "coffee table" book format published by the U.S. Department of Justice, so you can rightly suspect it won't include Bureau controversies, scandals or missteps. But it does trace the agency's evolution from a makeshift band of 34 investigators to a full-fledged national security and intelligence agency with 30,000 special agents (at least 59 of whom, along with one professional staff member, have been killed in the line of duty).
There are overviews of the gangster years, World War II, the Cold War, espionage and terrorism, and synopses and 300 photos (some not previously shown to the public) from over 40 of the Bureau's best-known cases. You can also print a PDF of the book, and then, I suppose, put your laser-paper copy on your coffee table. If you'd prefer the glossy version, order the updated 2015 version from the GPO office.
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May 19, 2017
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Scott Drayco Novel #8: In a historic Victorian mansion used as a movie set, Drayco investigates a decades-old murder case that brings him face to face with deadly secrets of the past and a killer determined to keep the truth buried.
Scott Drayco Novel #7: How would you solve your own kidnapping? And what if the reason behind it was even stranger than you could ever imagine?
Scott Drayco Novel #6: Some secrets refuse to stay buried while others threaten to bury you ... permanently.
Scott Drayco Novel #5: A song linked to suicides may have taken another victim. Or was it a cleverly disguised murder?
Scott Drayco Novel #4: When crime consultant Scott Drayco’s long-AWOL mother returns and is charged with murder, he’s plunged into a world of secrets, lies, and cons.
Scott Drayco Novel #3: Drayco reunites with his estranged FBI partner to protect the partner's daughter from a serial killer who leaves musical puzzles as a calling card.
Scott Drayco Novel #2: A mysterious attack on a young disabled girl lures Drayco back to Cape Unity and into a sea of secrets and lies.
Scott Drayco Novel #1: A body found in a rundown Opera House with a "G" carved on his chest lures a former FBI agent into a web of music, madness and murder.
Eight Scott Drayco stories.
A con woman vows to avenge her grandmother's death but must outsmart a handsome detective plus the efforts of her nemesis to silence her...forever.
Detective Adam Dutton once again teams up with con woman Beverly Laborde to find a killer. But is it too late for an innocent man...and for them?
Detective Adam Dutton and con woman Beverly battle arson, fraud, and a new NAL villain, even as they fight the smoldering attraction between them.
I strongly urge Curt Gentry's masterwork "J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets." Ten years of painstaking, precise research by the co-author of "Helter Skelter." It is immensely readable and absolutely fascinating. Especially the saga of poor 22 year old Navy Ensign JFK!
Posted by: Fred Zackel | May 19, 2017 at 05:36 PM
Thanks so much for the recommendation, Fred! Definitely adding it to my TBR pile and hopefully other folks will, too.
Posted by: BV Lawson | May 19, 2017 at 05:40 PM