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The United States Secret Service, first published in 1960, is a fascinating look at the activities of this branch of the Treasury Department. From the establishment of the Service through the 1950s, the book examines the Service's history: from assassination attempts and protecting the President, to crime-fighting responsibilities such as finding counterfeit currency, investigating fraud and government corruption. Several chapters describe efforts...
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In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever look at a very special breed of heroes.
Wherever the president goes, there will be dogs. They’ll be there no matter what the country or state. They’ll...
Wherever the president goes, there will be dogs. They’ll be there no matter what the country or state. They’ll...
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"Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff without any witnesses. But she couldn't have predicted that she'd be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady's absence comes in the...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"A look at United States Secret Service canine teams who risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others including the selection of dogs and handlers, their year-round training, their missions around the world, and the bond that holds the teams together"--
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A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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"Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
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Carnton novel volume 2
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him"--
Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted...
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Harmony Harbor volume 6
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Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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When her fiancee leaves her for her stepmother, who is also stealing her wedding business, Jenna Bell receives help from Logan Gallagher, whom she has had a crush on for years, forcing her to reassess what she wants out of life.
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"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
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"President Teddy Roosevelt's daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she'd never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents...
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Federal K-9 volume 5
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Ambushed and left for dead, U.S. Secret Service K-9 Officer Markus York is on the mend and laying low in a safe house while his team tracks down his attacker. But Markus isn't good at sitting still. Even with his K-9, Ghost, for company, he gets restless and decides now is the perfect time to do some repairs around the house ... and inadvertently tears open his wounds. Fresh out of a bad relationship that ended after a car accident left her with limited...
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Chronicles the story of the Reconstruction-era Secret Service and its battle against the KKK's effort to suppress the emancipated African-American vote, sharing particular insights into the career of controversial Secret Service chief, Hiram C. Whitley. In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates...
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"This photo-illustrated book describes the life of a US Secret Service agents, including their work catching counterfeiters and protecting the president of the United States. Describes training required to be an agent and what a day in the life is like in the field"--
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On Screen Films
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p 2008, 2004
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Español
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Follow an elite band of men and women charged with guarding the American President. Witness the measures employed to protect the President, his family and other American leaders, and get an agent's view of the day-to-day challenges faced by Secret Service veterans serving Bush back to Truman and earlier presidents.
"Sigue a un grupo élite de hombres y mujeres motivados por el impresionante grupo de seguridad del presidente de Estados Unidos. Para...
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In 1902 New York, Alice Roosevelt, the bright, passionate, and wildly unconventional daughter of newly sworn-in President Theodore Roosevelt, is placed under the supervision of Secret Service Agent Joseph St. Clair, ex-cowboy and veteran of the Rough Riders. St. Clair quickly learns that half his job is helping Alice roll cigarettes and escorting her to bookies, but matters grow even more difficult when Alice takes it upon herself to investigate a...
16) Under fire
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Defend and protect (Blackburn) volume 3
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Special Agent Tessa Reed left her demons in the past, but when she reconnects with USSS Agent Zane Thacker during a presidential fundraiser, one of those old adversaries comes to collect. These best friends must work together to protect the President and guard their own hearts"--
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Join U.S. Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they do their heroic best to keep America safe from the evil geniuses, criminal masterminds and devious despots who plan to imperil, rob or conquer the President, the nation and the world.
18) The fight: a Secret Service agent's inside account of security failings and the political machine
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An In-Depth Look at the Current Political and Security Failings of Our Nation By New York Times Bestselling Author and Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino Book jacket.
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Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend S�lvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make-return, or submit his resignation. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo caf�e, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a...
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The wild, wild west revisited: The intrepid team of Nineteenth century government underground intelligence agents made famous on the 1965-69 television series are brought out of retirement to discover whether clone-like imposters may have been substituted for the crowned heads of Britain, Spain, Russia and President Cleveland. More wild, wild west: Secret agents James West and Artemus Gordon foil a mad professor in the Old West.
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