The pretender : my life undercover for the FBI / Marc Ruskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruskin, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, Marc.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Undercover operations--United States.

Undercover operations.

Local Subjects:

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees.

Undercover operations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

352 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

Quantico NAC 85-7

San Juan

Learning to live a lie

The stakes go up

The daily grind

The long arm of the lie

BLUESCORE

SUNBLOCK

Starlight Lounge

Never the same, never again

But first, that shootout in Buenos Aires

Back to New York

False flags

ALTERNATE BREACH

Shalom.

ISBN:

1250068630

9781250068637

OCLC:

947146116