dimanche 31 août 2014

The Most Popular FBI Books

By Mattie MacDonald


The FBI has been the subject of numerous narratives relating to its history, defining moments, operations, challenges and successes. This has inspired writers of fiction and non-fiction books to develop exciting plots through imagination and real accounts. The range of FBI books available in circulation covers all angles of the operations of this bureau that works in secrecy.

Tim Weiner has penned Enemies which traces the history of this institution over the years. He gives a personal account having worked for the department and CIA throughout his career. His writing skills have won him the Pulitzer award. His approach is how successive presidents have influenced the department to gain an upper hand in fulfilling their goals.

The Bureau is an investigative account of operations within the organization including interviews with past chiefs. Ronald Kessler is an award winning journalist who weaves the tale to create relevance now by explaining occurrences in the past. His pet subject is how unprepared the bureau was for the September 11 attack.

Christopher de Bellaigue has followed the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan and ended up with the book What Only Soldiers Understand. It features real combat including explosions and bullets slamming into wood, metal and earth. The book follows the life of Private Juan Sebastian who perished in Afghanistan and remains a hero to the American people.

The rejection by the Supreme Court in 1959 of a petition by her husband is the subject of this novel entitled How FBI Turned Me On that is written by Zemon Natalie Davis. The petition was filed to question the legality of a house committee on non-American affairs. The court refused to here the petition but the message had been passed across. Natalie got the idea after being asked to reflect on her past after she was awarded National Humanities Medal.

Other titles are inspired by this bureau but adopt a fictional perspective. An example is Point Blank that stars Savich and Sherlock, a married couple working on a kidnapping and murder case. They are unaware that the next target is Sherlock. The reason she is targeted is because the kidnapping duo have a personal vendetta against her husband. It takes more than professional conduct for Savich to save his love.

Powers Thomas writes about Richard Helms under the title The Man Who Kept Secrets. Helms headed the CIA at a certain point with Powers weaving the story in a manner that makes it appear like fiction. Thomas Powers has exemplified his incredible story telling skills in this book.

Eyeball to Eyeball is an account given by Dino Brugioni about the Cuban missile crisis. It is made curiously interesting when one considers that Dino was a top CIA officer during the crisis. This makes it a careful recording of the crisis from within.

The combination of what is known and the unknown makes books about the bureau more interesting. There always is a juicy part that is not known to the public that is revealed in non-fiction writing. Fictional titles seek to offer explanations or speculate about the goings on in an institution charged with maintaining secrecy.




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