Dictators and Diplomats

A Special Agent's Memoir and Musings

De: Robert W. Starnes

Narrado por: John Redden

Be prepared for a peek behind the governmental veil and historical perspectives never before shared. Dictators and Diplomats is a fascinating memoir offering a glimpse into the extraordinary life of a US Security Attaché. Robert W. Starnes' international law enforcement career took him to six continents while encountering terrorism, counterintelligence, executive protections, and criminal investigations.

• Relive a chemical terrorist threat in New Zealand against US golfer Tiger Woods.
• Return to Libya during Col. Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorial reign.
• Become stranded in Brazil with a suspected high-ranking Hezbollah terrorist.
• Relish in the success of disrupting a Lebanese terrorist plot to bomb a US Embassy.
• Arrest a Pakistani defector and terrorist two weeks from joining the US Army Airborne.
• Run the gauntlet of a planned siege of a US Embassy during a coup d'état.
• Experience brushes with death during Guatemala's civil war.
• Scour the Samoan jungles to rescue children from an abusive behavior modification camp.
• Restore security after the arson attack against the Texas Governor's Mansion.
• Enact an Elliott Nest strategy used against gangster Al Capone to disrupt mafia figures.
• Trade moves with the infamous Love Bandit who stole the hearts of lonely women.

You'll enjoy these adventurous reflections in this well-written memoir that is factual, informative, honest, and, at times, cleverly humorous.

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a little disappointing

it sounded like a robot reading and I expected more from the story. I wouldn't recommend this.