Product Description: Readers will love learning about the exciting careers of Secret Service agents. This book will introduce readers to the federal law enforcers who protect and serve the federal government. The text includes Secret Service history, missions, and different jobs involved with a career in this federal force...read more

When the Secret Service is mentioned, most people think of the men and women in suits protecting the President of the United States. The department does so much more, as its thousands of employees guard government officials and visiting dignitaries, police key federal buildings, and investigate financial crimes, such as counterfeiting. Those who are interested in working for the Secret Service in any capacity needn't look further than Careers in the Secret Service for all the information they require for success, from how to apply for an internship to how much money they will make in its various departments.

Product Description: Of Gadgets, Mice and Men: Governments and Their Spies is Miron’s thirteenth non-fiction work. He has also published two action-packed spy novels about Tatya; Moscow Nights and The Mossad Agenda. Watch for the final instalment of this trilogy, In China’s Shadow.

Product Description: The enduring appeal of spies and their technology, codes and mysterious ways are explored in this engaging series of four colorful books. Each explores a different aspect of the spy trade, interspersing historical tidbits with tales of spies from popular culture and contemporary movies...read more

Product Description: The enduring appeal of spies and their technology, codes and mysterious ways are explored in this engaging series of four colorful books. Each explores a different aspect of the spy trade, interspersing historical tidbits with tales of spies from popular culture and contemporary movies...read more

The gathering of information by the Intelligence Services is now an issue of major importance in the modern world. But what are the ethical responsibilities of these bodies.? How is that intelligence collected, assessed and used? What is the impact and significance of the new protective state that has been constructed in Whitehall over the years since 2001? With new threats appearing to society both at home and abroad and sweeping changes being made to the law and Government, intelligence and police authorities where does the debate now take us? All these matters raise profound questions for the nature and future of democracy and human rights. These are considered and analysed by those the cutting edge of the debate in this brilliant book.

The CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina - the names read like a rollcall of the seamier side of history in the years following the Second World War. Today the Cold War is dead; there are fewer dictatorships; and 9.11 has created a whole new raison d'etre for covert action. This title: explains the impact of the war on terrorism on the world's secret services and intelligence agencies; describes how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased their power to spy and eavesdrop; reveals the changing priorities and working methods of intelligence services around the world; important issues raised include the new roles of the secret services as they target 'rogue states', 'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists'. The authors explore the unsolved contradiction between secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society.

Describes the history, training, duties, and role of the United States Secret Service.

Discusses the history of the need to provide protection for the president of the United States and describes the duties of the members of the Secret Service who fill this role. (view table of contents)

An espionage expert reveals the workings and assesses the effectiveness and economic efficiency of the world's intelligence services, from the KGB to the CIA