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Title: Special Agent : My Life On the Front Lines As Woman in the FBI by Candice DeLong ISBN: 0-7868-6707-8 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (55 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lock your doors, pull down the shades
Comment: I'm even MORE paranoid than I was before now that I've finished Candice DeLong's book. Her tales of the cases she's been involved with are truly intriguing and often chilling. However, if you're looking for an inside scoop on the FBI, you certainly won't find it here. DeLong doesn't offer any suprising revelations about the hardships of being a woman in this blue-suit environment, nor does she give her reader any critical analysis of the inner workings of the FBI. But, it is a very entertaining (if unsettling) read. At the end of the book, DeLong offers some tips on lessening your chances of becoming a crime victim, but the overall message of the book seems to be a rather doomed one: crime happens, and it happens to people like you and me for no real reason at all.
Rating: 2
Summary: TOO MUCH FLUFF, NOT ENOUGH SUBSTANCE
Comment: I had high hopes for this book since I had read such glowing reviews of it on Amazon. However, there is really very little substantive information in here. I hoped on using it in a course on Criminal Justice that I am teaching in the Fall. I am still using the book, but will have to work harder filling in the analytical gaps that DeLong leaves out...Sure -Special Agent- is a memoir, and thus I am willing to grant the author a fair bit of novelistic license, but she seems to wholly neglect the social processes that are involved in actually solving crimes. From reading her account, one gets the impression that crimes somehow just miraculously solve themselves. Her insights on being a woman and in the FBI are the book's strongest points, and she is also good on rape/sexual violence and profiling. But she is completely uncritical when it comes to things such as the the 'war on drugs' and asset forfeiture laws. She seems to just take it for granted that these laws fall within the realm of "civil" rather than "criminal" violations, but doesn't tell us why this should be the case. This is a fine book for people who believe in shows like 'Cops' and 'America's Most Wanted' and want something comforting to read before they go to bed, but for those of us who would like a more realisitic and thoughtful (rather than emotional) take on the criminal justice system, we will have to look elsewhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Candice gives as good as she gets!
Comment: What an excellent read! The characters and relationships are very intriguing-the author's world is filled with both obvious and subtle villains, as well as obvious and subtle heroes. Candice herself is fun, likeable and strong enough to give as good as she gets. Though she is being constantly second-guessed, undermined and underestimated, she ends up turning her "weakness" into advantage time and again. The author sets up the rivalry between the FBI and the DEA and her unique role walking between the two. Highly recommended.
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Title: FBI Careers: The Ultimate Guide to Landing a Job As One of Americas Finest by Thomas H. Ackerman ISBN: 1563708906 Publisher: Jist Works Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The FBI : A Comprehensive Reference Guide by Athan G. Theoharis, Tony G. Poveda, Susan Rosenfeld, Richard Gid Powers ISBN: 0816042284 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 067178658X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: John Douglas's Guide to Careers in the FBI by John E. Douglas ISBN: 0684855046 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas ISBN: 0671528904 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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