Cold Zero; Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team

Editorial: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001

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viii, [2], 420, [2] pages. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Includes Author's Note, Prologue, and Acknowledgments. Book One includes Entrance On Duty; The Academy; 3 FNG; Good Vibrations; Sweat Tea and Dobermans; and Code Three. Book Two includes Selection; New Operator Training School; Discipline; The Big One; and Early Midnight. Book Three includes Mount Out; Jocking Up; The Shot; and Resolution. Book Four includes Waco; Come the Babylonians; The Dorian Mode; The Wind; and Toes Over; Book 5 includes Finding the Pulse; Back to Basics; The New Mission; Back in the Saddle; and The Future. The Hostage Rescue Team is law enforcement's most highly trained and specialized squadron--equivalent to the Navy's SEALs and the Army's Delta Force--charged with terrorist capture, hostage situations, and other large-scale emergencies in the U.S. and around the world. Whitcomb is the first HRT member ever to write about his experience. Christopher Whitcomb is an American author and former member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. He also appeared as an "expert" on NBC. Whitcomb spent 15 years with the FBI, and worked on many high-profile cases. These included the Waco Siege, LA Riots, and Ruby Ridge. His final assignment with the FBI consisted of working with the Critical Incident Response Group. Derived from a Kirkus review: A cocky yet intelligent account of the making and actions of an FBI Hostage Rescue Team operator, by one of their own. After a painful amount of training, the Hostage Rescue Team, like firefighters and spies, sit through long periods of tedium, interrupted by furious, adrenaline-charged activity. Special Agent Whitcomb very neatly blends his tough guy patter with pleasing wordplay. He explains how he got involved in the FBI in the first place; his extensive academy training; a whole lot of technical information on the tools of his trade; his first years on the job (including interviewing people who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens); and his preparation to join the Hostage Rescue Team as a sniper. The meat of the story comes in the blow-by-blow narratives of his more high-profile missions. These include the unpleasantness up on Ruby Ridge in Idaho, busts of drug gangs, and a journey into the killing grounds of Kosovo. Most dreadfully, he was also part of the disaster in Waco. Whitcomb is not your standard-issue killing machine; he has feelings and he is not afraid to speak them. The gassing and deaths of children at the Branch Davidian compound tear him to pieces, but as he notes, it took the FBI apart as well. He believes that a better organization can rise in its stead, that "we could heal," and so he keeps at the job, understanding that he can do good in the shadow of the past. Whitcomb is just the kind of guy who could restore a bit of faith in the FBI. Advance Reading Copy of First edition [stated], first printing [stated].

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Título
Cold Zero; Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
Autor
Whitcomb, Christopher
Editorial
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Año de publicación
2001
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Very good
Encuadernación
Trade paperback
Edición
1ª Edición
Catálogos de vendedores
Counterterrorism, FBI, Law Enforcement

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