This book was amazing!!! Marc is an excellent storyteller, mixing in super scary stories with hilarious anecdotes. It took me a while to plug through it, with everything else going on, but I loved every word in it!! It's 5 star for me!!
Of all the tools available to law
enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the
gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of
electronic surveillance, UC work enforces accountability; it prevents mistakes,
and of all the boots on the ground, undercover agents are often the most
valuable. The FBI generally has about
100 UC agents working full-time in the field. In the 1990s and 2000s, Marc
Ruskin had the most diverse, and notorious, case list of all, and the broadest
experience within the bureaucracy, including overseas. He worked ops targeting
public corruption, corporate fraud, Wall Street scams, narcotics trafficking,
La Cosa Nostra, counterfeiting―and gritty street-level scams and schemes. Sometimes working three or four cases
simultaneously, Ruskin switched identities by the day: Each morning he had to
walk out the door with the correct ID, clothes, accessories and frame of mind
for that day’s mission. Meet Alex Perez, Alejandro Marconi, and Sal Morelli,
just a few of Ruskin’s undercover personas. And how is the right UC agent
chosen, how is a bogus identity manufactured and “backstopped,” how is the
Bureau's long-term con painstakingly assembled? No one has ever given us the
inside story like Ruskin. The Pretender is the definitive
narrative of undercover ops―the procedures, the successes, the failures--and
the changes in the culture of the new-era FBI. (picture and description from Amazon)
So now it is less than one week to Book Club and I haven't even cracked my book! I gotta get on the ball!
Happy Reading!
O:)
Melissa
Happy Reading!
O:)
Melissa
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