Inside

From a twenty-five-year career that spanned four continents an FBI special agent gives you the inside story of the Bureaus greatest takedowns and biggest screwups.From China to the South Pacific from East Berlin to Arkansas I.C. Smith is one of the FBIs most storied figures. This intrepid G-man has seen it all this riveting book about the Bureau Smith brings a fresh insiders perspective on the FBIs most well-known triumphs and failures of the past three decades. Robert Hannsen. Morris and Eva Childs. Larry Wu-Tai Chin. Aldrich Ames. Smith offers unique insights into how these monumental investigations were handled or often mishandled in alarming detail. He also confronts head-on the string of errors inside the FBIin management and in the fieldthat directly led to the attacks of September 11th.Filled with startling new information including more than seventy never-before-published findings Smith tracks his incredible rise from street agent in St. Louis to special agent in charge of Arkansaswhere he took on the corrupt political system that produced President Bill Clinton.