Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=6666&browse=true&Ne=6670&N=3+6670+7104+4294966744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682821 General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715451 When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness - - a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705102 Explaining the unique psychology behind the SEALs legendary training program, a high-level SEAL officer reveals the modern techniques that transform a chosen few into lethal warriors and details how the SEALs creative operations became front-and-center in Americas War on Terror. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678855 Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687226 An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she took with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. She describes her resolve as a young girl to become a lawyer, and how she made this dream become reality: valedictorian of her high school class, summa cum laude at Princeton, Yale Law, prosecutor in the Manhattan D.A.s office, private practice, federal district judge before the age of forty. She writes about her deeply valued mentors, about her failed marriage, about her cherished family of friends. Through her still-astonished eyes, Americas infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this ... book-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1535803 John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519608 The astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 150 confirmed kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590269 When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzies efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the womans protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548498 For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660371 After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586991 When Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange returns home to Texas, he must employ all of his training to help a former associate from South America while trying to avoid Peg Larson, the daughter of his ranch foreman who is a distraction he cannot afford. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674900 In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1568396 A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590255 Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1568154 A unique collective biography of the four men who with a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics shaped the modern U.S. Navy to win WWII at sea. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1568354 The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him, and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from Americas founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In this book, we follow the author to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world, Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where he offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men hes seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579956 When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538102 When CIA operative Catherine Lings old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1581620 Using carefully honed sensory skills gleaned from a childhood spent blind to solve cases, music therapist Kendra Michaels is tapped by a former FBI agent, who is investigating the work of a serial killer who may be responsible for the disappearance of Kendras ex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649881 This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. A midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders, directors, producers, and actors, traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the ideal backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired. Here the author finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442871 A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Ministers private army are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed. For the assassination plan is only the beginning. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630230 For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1242788 Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella and his estranged wife, Eden Gillman, are set on saving her brother even if that means reconciling with each other to prove to a court that they can give better care to the young teenage boy. Just as their hearts begin to mend, the makeshift family gets caught up in saving another youth from a crime ring in Las Vegas and ends up with a group of dangerous men on their trail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213694 With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfelds memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfelds unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1236050 The CIA operative author of See No Evil and his CIA sharpshooter wife describe how they unexpectedly fell in love during a mission and the complicated challenges they faced in their shared effort to return to civilian life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279349 For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against Americas enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262729 Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260452 Now sober, Atlanta homicide detective Patrick Tick Kelly, still haunted by the murder of his wife and children, gets an unexpected second chance at happiness when he works with former DEA agent Kate Rush to expose a local human trafficking ring. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1342919 Facing daunting challenges in the form of political threats against the OSS and the early stirrings of the Cold War, Cletus Frade and his colleague conduct a secret operation to counter the growing ambitions of Joseph Stalin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392134 Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Armys Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277483 For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426654 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. Their arrival in the spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby was the victim of an assassination attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Gabby was shot in the head; doctors called her survival miraculous. As the nation grieved and sought to understand the attack, Gabby remained focused on her against-all-odds recovery. Mark spent every possible moment by her side, as he also prepared for his final mission as commander of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Now, as Gabbys health continues to improve, the couple is sharing their remarkable untold story, an unflinching look at the overwhelming challenges of brain injury, the painstaking process of learning to communicate again, and the responsibilities that fall to a loving spouse who wants the best possible treatment for his wife.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431773 When a hostile Third World country begins to receive military training and nuclear technology from foreign nations, Charley Castillo and his team investigate only to be abandoned by the U.S. government and placed on hit lists throughout the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297923 A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1256497 The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365624 The former vice president of the United States reflects on his influential tenure in a memoir which also includes details from his personal life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310685 A serial killer is on the loose, and its up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead monster Ted Bundy. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on... -- Jkt. flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1226710 The Massachusetts senator who was elected to succeed the late Edward Kennedy recounts the story of his neglect- and abuse-marked childhood, military and career successes, and unexpected entry into politics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336406 In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASAs precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts downfall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187571 The Secret Service are an elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed, and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFKs Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led to it and its heartrending aftermath. This book is a portrait of dedication, courage, and loss. Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, the author captures the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning. He describes the careful planning that went into JFKs Texas swing, the worries and concerns that agents, working long hours with little food or rest, had during the trip. And he describes the intensely private first lady making her first ever political appearance with her husband, just months after losing a newborn baby. Here are vivid scenes that could come only from inside the Kennedy detail: JFKs last words to his tearful son when he left Washington for the last time; how a sudden change of weather led to the choice of the open air convertible limousine that day; Mrs. Kennedy standing blood soaked outside a Dallas hospital room; the sudden interruption of six-year-old Carolines long anticipated sleepover with a friend at home; the exhausted team of agents immediately reacting to the presidents death with a shift to LBJ and other key governmental figures; the agents dismay at Jackies decision to walk openly from the White House to St. Matthews Cathedral at the state funeral. Most of all, this is a look into the lives of men who devoted their entire beings to protecting the presidential family: the stress of the secrecy they kept, the emotional bonds that developed, the terrible impact on agents psyches and families, and their astonishment at the countrys obsession with far fetched conspiracy theories and finger pointing. This book is a portrait of camaraderie and heartbreak, a true story of heroism in its most complex and human form. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1192044 When Scarpetta examines a young mans body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover who and why before more people die. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1117383 A merciless man with a haunted past, FBI agent Kilraven cant help being attracted to Winnie Sinclair, a shy 911 operator. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her familys unsavory past might have a bearing on his cold case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it--and the ice around this Texans heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298499 Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. Theyre no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug companys U.S. headquarters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272382 On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1168454 To rescue kidnapped Tess Chaykin, FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the Popes massive Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition in search of a document known as the Fondo Templari, a secret history of the infamous Templars. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044324 The Politician offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage, and his dreams in ashes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303237 A group of female warriors from the nations most elite counter-terrorism unit-- the United States Armys 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta--deploys on a dangerous international assignment. Their code name: Athena Project. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1165707 Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the militarys most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martins Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and other interested U.S. intelligence agencies met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required be made, before the book could be published, in order to not damage our national security, harm our troops, or harm U.S. military intelligence efforts or assets. Thus, there are sections with redactions in the final book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1188302 As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1047994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110992 Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistans Korengal Valley. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1056916 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1099150 Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States By looking at Obamas political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of ... heroes of the civil rights movement who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorties of a new eneration of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamas quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by indiiduals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. -- from publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991240 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962219 FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller as they attempt to keep Autumn Backman, a seven-year-old telepath, from falling into the hands of her uncle and his growing army of exploited children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880459 With this illustrated book containing original reporting and analysis and showcasing the unrivaled, intimate behind-the-scenes photography of campaign photographer Callie Shell, Time Magazine marks the rise of Barack Obama from his early days to his Chicago years to the moment when he became a political phenomenon and finally won the presidency. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130256 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=789437 The Russian bear is stirring--and its hungry--in the thrilling fifth novel of the Presidential Agent series. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War--or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out as the Delta Force operative investigates the disappearances and deaths of covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003371 In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1002770 In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024711 Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelts 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021893 Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelts pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003501 In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the worlds first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1000255 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=997104 An in-depth look at the much talked-about -- but never fully revealed -- relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy that began as a result of their shared grief over the assassination of the president in 1963 and lasted until Bobby began his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966281 Reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753560 For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true--but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880156 The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--a mission requiring the best America had to offer: roughly forty members of Americas super-secret counterterrorist unit, an lite and mysterious unit known as Delta Force. And these Delta warriors had the best help they could ask for: the CIA, a dozen of the British Queens elite commandos, and another dozen or so Army Green Berets. This team waged a modern-day siege of epic proportions against bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary, deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range. Over the years since the battle, news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in the caves of Tora Bora, most of it conjecture and speculation. This is the first firsthand account of this battle, and an inside look at the extraordinary nature of Delta Force and how they operate.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=803438 When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court, romance and the fate of a presidential election take center stage in this comic political satire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749264 FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are assigned to protect Dr. MacLean, a physician with frontal lobe dementia that could compromise his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality. With a patient list made up of Washington movers and shakers, MacLeans role as a keeper of secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone out there so desperate that theyd kill the doctor for what he knows? It is up to Jackson, Savich, and Sherlock to find out--no matter the cost.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=756041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753550 Vinh Murphy--ex-Marine and onetime operative for the elite security firm Troubleshooters Incorporated--has been MIA ever since his wife was caught in a crossfire and killed during what should have been a routine bodyguard assignment. Overcome with grief, Murphy blames the neo-Nazi group known as the Freedom Network for her death. Then he learns of the murder of a Freedom Network leader and comes to believe that the militant group has targeted him--and former police officer Hannah Whitfield--to avenge their leaders death to violence. Now Murphy must face the terrifying prospect of losing another woman he loves.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=713268 The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and struggles to acquire an education to his publicly contested confirmation to the nations highest court. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=690618 Over the past decade, the central front of Americas bitter culture wars has been the titanic battle over the composition and direction of the United States Supreme Court. During this period, no journalist has been closer to the action on the ground - the ideas, the politics, the personalities, the gamesmanship - than ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg. Now, in Supreme Conflict, Greenburg draws on all of her formidable reportorial resources to give a brilliant, vivid, astonishingly unvarnished account of the struggle for the soul of the highest court in the land.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=709531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=715379 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=713036 Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=730092 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880383 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=730364 Drawing on interviews with the Supreme Court justices and other insiders, a look at the powerful, often secretive world of the Supreme Court offers profiles of each justice and how their individual styles affect the way in which they wield their power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=663610 The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Who is responsible? Most likely, the people higher up in the dirty-money chain - those willing to risk anything to keep their secrets from being revealed. Theyve left just enough of a trail, though, for Castillo to pick up the scent, and with carte blanche from the President of the United States to follow it wherever it takes him, he ends up ... well, not exactly where he expected.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677054 In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one mans vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenets time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence organization in the world during the most challenging times in recent history. With unparalleled access to both the highest echelons of government and raw intelligence from the field, Tenet illuminates the CIAs painstaking attempts to prepare the country against new and deadly threats, disentangles the interlocking events that led to 9/11, and offers explosive new information on the deliberations and strategies that culminated in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Beginning with his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence in 1997, Tenet unfolds the momentous events that led to 9/11 as he saw and experienced them: his declaration of war on al-Qaida; the CIAs covert operations inside Afghanistan; the worldwide operational plan to fight terrorists; his warnings of imminent attacks against American interests to White House officials in the summer of 2001; and the plan for a coordinated and devastating counterattack against al-Qaida laid down just six days after the attacks. Tenets narrative then turns to the war in Iraq as he provides dramatic insight and background on the run-up to the invasion, including a firsthand account of the fallout from the inclusion of sixteen words in the presidents 2003 State of the Union address, which claimed that Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase uranium from Africa; the true context of Tenets own now-famous slam dunk comment regarding Saddams WMD program; and the CIAs critical role in an administration predisposed to take the country to war. In doing so, he sets the record straight about CIA operations and shows readers that the truth is more complex than suggested in other versions of recent history offered thus far. Through it all, Tenet paints an unflinching self-portrait of a man caught between the warring forces of the administrations decision-making process, the reams of frightening intelligence pouring in from around the world, and his own conscience. In At the Center of the Storm, George Tenet draws on his unmatched experience within the opaque mirrors of intelligence and provides crucial information previously undisclosed to offer a moving, revelatory profile of both a man and a nation in times of crisis.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=713261 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642217 Navy SEAL Team Sixteen and the security experts from Troubleshooters Inc. have arranged a winter training exercise in the mountains of New Hampshire. While romance blooms between Petty Officer Mark Jenkins and former LAPD detective Lindsey Fontaine, Troubleshooter receptionist Tracy Shapiro, playing the role of the hostage, disappears. As the weather closes in, it is feared shes become the latest victim of a serial killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966806 The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to Americas original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=656797 President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006. In this book President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East and his personal experiences with the principal actors, and he addresses sensitive political issues many American officials avoid. Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism. The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key U.N. resolutions, official American policy, and the international road map for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israels official pre-1967 borders must be honored. As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, U.S. government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal of a just agreement that both sides can honor.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626091 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651701 The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington--Provided by the publisher http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617619 With relentless media coverage, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history that involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political crossfire that it could not withstand, and what it did to respond. It includes a Defense Department that made its own foreign policy, even against the wishes of the commander-in-chief. It features a president who created a sphere of deniability in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity--but the president was carefully kept in ignorance. Based on extraordinary sources in Washington and around the world, this book exposes an explosive chain of events and a series of troubling patterns.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615888 They were called Easy Company, but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander, and this is his story based on his wartime diary. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the wars end. On D-Day, Dick Winters parachuted into France and assumed leadership of the company when their commander was killed. He led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany, where they liberated an S.S. death camp from the horrors of the Holocaust and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitlers alpine retreat. After briefly serving during the Korean War, Winters was a highly successful businessman.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=588448 The FBI that Louis Freeh took over in the summer of 1993 was still reeling from the bloody standoff at Ruby Ridge and the conflagration at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Unpopular, underfunded, and understaffed, the Bureau was also creeping along in the technological Dark Ages. For eight years - the second-longest tenure of any director since J. Edgar Hoover - Freeh would fight tooth and nail to turn the FBI around. Maybe because he had once been an FBI agent himself, Freeh was the most hands-on director in Bureau history. He didnt sit in Washington; he was there, on the ground, at some of the most high-profile crime sites the Bureau has ever taken on. In these pages, he takes readers with him: to Khobar Towers in the Saudi desert, where the dust is still settling on the remains of nineteen murdered U.S. servicemen; to Oklahoma City, where shredded childrens toys lie scattered amid the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building; and to places far and wide. This is Louis Freehs entire story - from his Catholic upbringing in suburban New Jersey to law school, the FBI training academy, his career as an assistant U.S. attorney and as a federal judge, and finally his eight years as the nations top cop. We see him at work as a field agent, using wiretaps and even going undercover to take down the corrupt leadership of the longshoremens union. My FBI also takes readers through Freehs prosecutorial crusades - from the Donnie Brasco case, which took down the Bonanno crime family, to internationally coordinated attacks on the Sicilian mob. My FBI takes readers inside law enforcement at the highest level. It captures Freehs showdown with Bill Clinton and also shows how a dedicated, apolitical professional faced down the absurdities of Beltway politics and repeatedly put himself on the line for a mission few others in Washington took seriously before September 11: ensuring the safety of the American people.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=586895 For more than a decade, countless journalists and biographers have struggled to pin down the character of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yet despite all the scrutiny, no one - until now - has explained her many contradictions and deceptions. Shes a wife, but she shows no wifely instincts. Shes a mother, but she isnt maternal. Shes a feminist, but she rode to power on her husbands coattails. Shes strong and assertive, but she has abetted decades of chronic infidelity. She inspires fierce loyalty among her followers, but she frequently stabs them in the back. In this book, journalist Edward Klein produces secret documents and stunning evidence from sources close to Hillary Clinton to show just how much she has been willing to lie, bully, cheat, and manipulate people in her quest for power. Klein reveals a pattern of chronic bad behavior during a decadeslong effort to become Americas first woman president, no matter what the cost. The Truth About Hillary contains shocking new accounts of key moments in Hillarys private and political life, giving readers a rare opportunity to assess the true character behind her public mask.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=560860 In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a confidential informant made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was kick-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement. Nor did Queen suspect that he would penetrate the gang so successfully that he would become a fully patched-in member, eventually rising through their ranks to the office of treasurer, where he had unprecedented access to evidence of their criminal activity. After he spent twenty-eight months as Billy St. John, the bearded, beer-swilling, Harley-riding gang-banger, the truth of his identity became blurry, even to himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610047 Finding herself pregnant after a single night of passion with a total stranger--seaman Riley Murdock--sheltered Hannah Raymond is reunited by fate with the father of her child and forced into marriage by her minister father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=574273 Douglas Brinkley tells the account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who paid them homage. The importance of Pointe du Hoc to Allied planners like General Dwight Eisenhower cannot be overstated. The heavy U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc - where six big German guns were ensconced - was number one. General Omar Bradley, in fact, called knocking out the Nazi defenses at the Pointe the toughest of any task assigned on June 6, 1944. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel James E. Rudder of Texas, who is profiled here, these elite forces - Rudders Rangers - took control of the fortified cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way. Based upon recently released documents from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Eisenhower Center, Texas A & M University, and the U.S. Army Military History Institute, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagans two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave, and the actual heroic event, which was indelibly captured as well in the opening scenes of Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan. Brinkley tells the story of how Lisa Zanatta Henn, the daughter of a D-Day veteran, forged a special friendship with President Reagan that changed public perceptions of World War II veterans forever. Two White House speechwriters - Peggy Noonan and Tony Dolan - emerge in the narrative as the master scribes whose ethereal prose helped Reagan become the spokesperson for the entire World War II generation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=575282 The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the grisly murder that catapults her into a horrific plague of death, all centered on the prestigious Stanislaus School of Music. And at Hooters Motel in Maryland, FBI agents Savich and Carver are nearly killed while attempting to rescue a kidnap victim. Instead of a hostage, all they see is a glowing-red timer and then a catastrophic explosion. They are then led to Arlington National Cemetery, but the search for the kidnap victim is cut short when Savich takes a fateful call on his cell, as a mysterious voice threatens to kill him and his wife. Pitted against an insane killer and his psychotic teenage girlfriend, Savich and Sherlock find themselves fighting a hate-driven villain with a very long memory.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=564765 With more than sixty confirmed kills, Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps top-ranked sniper. Shooter is his first-person account of a snipers life on and off the modern battlefield. Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin is a divorced father of two who grew up in a wealthy Boston suburb. At the age of nineteen, although he had never even held a gun, he joined the Marines and would spend the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle as a sniper. In that time, he accumulated one of the most successful sniper records in the Corps, ranging through many of the worlds hotspots. During Operation Iraqi Freedom alone, he recorded at least thirty-six kills, thirteen of them in a single twenty-four-hour period. Now Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic battlefield memoir, but the careful study of an exceptional man who must keep his sanity while carrying forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. military today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590487 Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an investigation done discretely. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now. An American diplomats wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is told, if she doesnt tell them where her brother is - a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, and an awful lot of hands are reaching up to grab it - and some of those hands dont mind shedding as much blood as it takes. Before the investigation is over...it might even be Castillos blood.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470149