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Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging crooks. At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from “The Movie” and boasting of how often they’d seen it. Delaney even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco (though neither knew the other was undercover), knowing all the while that a single slip could get him killed. Ultimately gathering enough evidence to convict 30 members of the Bruno and Genovese crime families, Project Alpha was a success, but Delaney struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and traces of Stockholm syndrome after getting too close to those he investigated. Therapy helped him come to terms with all he’d endured during his three tense years undercover, and, once a college basketball star, Delaney began officiating high school and intramural games as a way to rebuild his life—eventually working his way up to the NBA, where he has been a referee for more than two decades. .
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Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods
The Hells Angels. The Bandidos Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day’s work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all. Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he’d end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or “kite”: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he’d slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served. From the Hardcover edition..
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Republican Like Me: Infiltrating Red-State, White-Ass, and Blue-Suit America
A flaming liberal in real life, Leon has been called 'a cross between Michael Moore and South Park'. He shares with readers his hilarious misadventures as he dons the persona of a 'pissed-off convenience store clerk' at the Knob Creek Biannual Machine Gun Shoot in Bullit County, Kentucky. Next, he's working security in southern California at an 'Arnold for Governor' rally, where he has several memorable encounters with the Terminator himself - and finds himself constantly promoted! But this is only the beginning. Leon reports on his zany experience at a Christian wrestling extravaganza, where the scantily clad wrestlers toss opponents into the stands in the name of Jesus. Taking a different tack, he paints on temporary tattoos, wears a black T-shirt reading 'Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out!' and then entertainingly describes the reactions he gets when he tries to purchase a condominium in an exclusive gated community..
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Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels (Canadian Edition)
Book DescriptionThe Hells Angels. The Bandidos Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a days work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought hed end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or kite: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, hed slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys.Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served. About the AuthorAlex Caine now acts as an adviser on biker investigations, and speaks frequently at police conferences. He is a certified fifth-degree black belt martial artist, recognized by the World Kickboxing Association. Befriend and Betray is his first book..
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Thinking outside the leadership box: more and more, non-academics are infiltrating the highest echelons of community college leadership.(Cover story): An article from: Community College Week
This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Thomson Gale on May 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3058 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Thinking outside the leadership box: more and more, non-academics are infiltrating the highest echelons of community college leadership.(Cover story) Author: Harvey Meyer Publication:Community College Week (Newspaper) Date: May 22, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 18 Issue: 21 Page: 6(3) Article Type: Cover story Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Tumor Infiltrating B Lymphocytes: A Novel Approach for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Over the past few decades, a great many laboratories have focused on the identification of novel tumor antigens that would be potential targets for tumor diagnostics and therapeutics. In spite of important findings in the field, the urgent need for the development of early tumor diagnosis and effective anti-tumor therapies remains. This work intends to provide a relatively broad audience with a novel approach for the development of cancer diagnostics and targeted therapeutics, based on recently proved hypotheses. It will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important aspects of a selected domain of tumor immunology, namely the characteristics and potential capacity of the tumor infiltrating B lymphocytes. .
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'Roid rage: districts' latest drug problem doesn't involve getting high, but getting stronger. Learn how steroids are infiltrating high schools and what ... An article from: District Administration
This digital document is an article from District Administration, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2948 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: 'Roid rage: districts' latest drug problem doesn't involve getting high, but getting stronger. Learn how steroids are infiltrating high schools and what districts are doing to stem the abuse.(Cover Story) Author: Elizabeth Crane Publication:District Administration (Magazine/Journal) Date: July 1, 2005 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 41 Issue: 7 Page: 32(6) Article Type: Cover Story Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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