Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the US Secret Service

✍ Scribed by Byrne, Gary J; Schmidt, Grant M

• Book ID: 109854519
• Publisher: Center Street
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 522 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service.

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The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents.

In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk

The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation.

Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near misses, and bureaucratic and cultural rot threaten to erode this critical organization from the inside out.

Today, as it works to...