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Despite the sexy flash of its language, it's a solid, convincing book. You'll learn a lot here about the history of the U. S. Marshals and about the turf wars between the FBI, CIA, and several other three-letter agencies. The highly dramatic style, though, makes it hard to tell how much is factual. Maybe that's not a drawback, if Marshal Zitto's paranoia is justified. --Fiona Webster
New York Times bestselling author Carsten Stroud has written agripping and graphic true story as riveting as any novel: the story of thedriven, hard-edged federal marshals whose job is the pursuit and capture of thenation's most dangerous and violent criminals.
Members of the oldest law enforcement agency in the country, the U.S. Marshalswere once regarded as little more than security guards. Now they're on thefrontlines of law enforcement. Their mission, made famous in the 1993 filmThe Fugitive, is to take down hardcore felons. In Deadly Force,Carsten Stroud leads us deep into their sometimes savage, sometimes darklyhumorous world.
Luke Zitto was stagnating in his job with the Witness Protection Program whenhis wife left him for one of the white-collar felons he was protecting.Reassignment to Fugitive Operations gave Luke a new beat on some of thecountry's meanest streets--it gave him his war.
Now the fugitive Luke wants most is an icy and elusive criminal who raped afederal marshal, a woman Luke is close to, and may be involved in a string ofother atrocities. How Luke, his colleagues, and local cops in Washington andNew York pursue this man, sometimes risking their jobs in the politicalquicksand of the Justice Department, is a thrilling and provocative story offrustrations and hunches, finks and snitches, that leads to a tension-packedfinal takedown.
Powerful, brutally real, Deadly Force is award-winning journalistCarsten Stroud's first nonfiction work on American law enforcement since hisclassic bestseller on the NYPD, Close Pursuit. No one could have toldthis story better.
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