Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, includin...

Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, includin...

Salmonella remains a major cause of economic loss in domestic livestock and human food poisoning worldwide. In the last 10 years there have been major advances in understanding the salmonella organism, meaning a compiled source of the new research is urgently needed. With fully updated chapters and new coverage of genome structure, virulence, vaccine development, molecular methods for epidemiology and exotics, this second edition is an invaluable resource for researchers of animal and huma...

The former FBI director under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recounts his tenure in this "scorching" bestselling Washington memoir ( The Washington Post )."[Freeh] comes off as the real deal, an honorable, hard-working man, a devoted public servant and father, a gifted lawyer and onetime federal prosecutor." — The New York TimesA spectacular New York Times and

#1 New York Times Bestseller now with new material. A Higher Loyalty provided the inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels.In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives ...

After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming lapses of the Obama and Trump years—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Carol Leonnig“This book is a wake-up call, and a valuable study of a critically important agency.”—The New York TimesA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARCarol Leonnig...

**“Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, & faultlessly measured in its judgments.” -Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon & Partners in PowerWas the rise of the disastrous George W. Bush just a matter of family connections and sly, cynical operatives such as Karl Rove? Or was something more at work-something that endures beyond Bush's departure from Washington?**Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker provides astonishing answer...

'Vivid and compelling' - The Telegraph'A masterful portrait of the city' - Observer'A propulsive, gorgeously reported account of the forces that re-shaped New York in the late 1980s, The Gods of New York is brilliant historical non-fiction that doubles as a warning about the future.'- Emily Nussbaum, author of Cue the Sun'A rip-roaring, sweeping, essential work of h...

"Fulsom digs deeper into the mire of the Nixon presidency . . . a book which bristles with revelations about the most disgraced American leader in history." —Muriel Dobbin, author and former White House correspondentRichard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, prejudices, hatreds, and chicanery.Calling on his work in covering Nixon, scores of...

The inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020The sensational Sunday Times #1 Bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.'An urgent clarion call.' - The Financial TimesIn A Higher Loyalty, his massive Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—SlateAs in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headl...