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The pretender : my life undercover for the FBI

Ruskin, Marc, (author.).

The FBI generally has about 100 undercover 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. 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.

Book  - 2017
363.2509 Rus
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  • ISBN: 9781250068637
  • Physical Description 352 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Publisher New York : Thomas Dunne Books, An imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2017.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Quantico NAC 85-7 -- San Juan -- Learning to live a lie -- The stakes go up -- The daily grind -- The long arm of the lie -- BLUE SCORE -- SUNBLOCK -- Starlight Lounge -- Never the same, never again -- But first, that shootout in Buenos Aires -- Back to New York -- False flags -- ALTERNATE BREACH -- Shalom.

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The Pretender : My Life Undercover for the FBI
The Pretender : My Life Undercover for the FBI
by Ruskin, Marc
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Table of Contents

The Pretender : My Life Undercover for the FBI

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Introductionp. 1
1Quantico NAC 85-7p. 5
2San Juanp. 14
3Learning to Live a Liep. 36
4The Stakes Go Upp. 64
5The Daily Grindp. 102
6The Long Arm of the Liep. 121
7Blue Scorep. 137
8Sunblockp. 157
9Starlight Loungep. 199
10Never the Same, Never Againp. 213
11But First, That Shootout in Buenos Airesp. 232
12Back to New Yorkp. 252
13False Flagsp. 278
14Alternate Breachp. 300
15Shalomp. 332
Epiloguep. 345
Acknowledgmentsp. 347
Glossary of FBI Argot and Acronymsp. 349