Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
The image of the FBI Special Agent, since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, has been carefully crafted as being polite, clean shaven young men and pleasantly smiling women whose hallmarks are polite words and good manners. Author Jack Owens goes behind that facade and shares the human side of the FBI. With a breezy sweep of the 30 years of his life as a Special Agent, Owens, with his remarkable wit, introduces the reader to a new type of FBI Agent- one who could appreciate the irony and humor of...
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The image of the FBI Special Agent, since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, has been carefully crafted as being polite, clean shaven young men and pleasantly smiling women whose hallmarks are polite words and good manners. Author Jack Owens goes behind that facade and shares the human side of the FBI. With a breezy sweep of the 30 years of his life as a Special Agent, Owens, with his remarkable wit, introduces the reader to a new type of FBI Agent- one who could appreciate the irony and humor of life and laughed and "cussed," yes "cussed", as he met those ironies and idiosyncrasies in the field in Alabama. Owens' shares his unique perspective with the reader from his early days as an FBI trainee through chasing spies, terrorists and assorted "bad guys," putting down a prison riot and setting up roadblocks for desperadoes where, occasionally, he encountered some good people too. Publishers Weekly Writer and former FBI special agent Owens recounts 30 years as a G-man in this funny, thought-provoking memoir. Fresh out of law school, Owens signed on with J. Edgar Hoover's all-white, all-male bureau in 1969. Presenting his work as a series of telling anecdotes, Owens often finds the comedy in his job (the standard punchline involves surprisingly easy-to-find fugitives) as well as the thrills, such as a stint with the FBI SWAT team, putting down a 1987 Atlanta prison riot started in part by Cuban inmates formerly held in Castro's prisons (a '94 riot followed in Alabama). Along with the tedium, ironies and tragedies of his decades in the field, Owens also details his work on one of the most shocking cases in U.S. criminal history, the Atlanta child murders in the early '80s. With a vet's cogent perspective, Owens produces a compelling and well-rounded retrospective of a life in criminal enforcement. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foreword ixPrologue 1Part 1Chapter 1 Origins 7Chapter 2 Beginners 11Chapter 3 Basic Training 15Chapter 4 Hogan's Alley 25Chapter 5 Graduation 27Part 2Chapter 6 Denver 31Chapter 7 Learning the Ropes 35Chapter 8 Softball 43Chapter 9 A Real Pro 45Chapter 10 Transferred 49Part 3Chapter 11 Birmingham 55Chapter 12 Motivation 61Chapter 13 J. Edgar Hoover 71Chapter 14 Big Shoes to Fill 81Part 1 L. Patrick Gray 81Part 2 Clarence Kelley 83Chapter 15 The Young and the Restless 87Part 1 Doing Foolish Things 87Part 2 Volkswagen Arrest 93Chapter 16 Crime Resistance 101Chapter 17 The Atlanta Child Murders 109Chapter 18 William H. Webster 121Chapter 19 A Perfect Moment in an Imperfect World 129Chapter 20 Don't Shoot! We're Republicans! 131Chapter 21 And Then Came Molly 135Chapter 22 Foreign Counterintelligence 139Part 4Chapter 23 Headlights 157Chapter 24 Area Code 215 165Chapter 25 Prison Hymn 171Chapter 26 William S. Sessions 181Chapter 27 Lincoln Grant 187Chapter 27 Assassination of a Federal Judge 191Chapter 28 Louis J. Freeh 203Chapter 30 Colin Powell 209Chapter 31 Talladega Uprising 213Chapter 32 Dogcatchers 221Chapter 33 Beer for Breakfast 225Chapter 34 Losing the Recruiting Wars 229Part 5Chapter 35 Hitting the Wall 233Chapter 36 Retirement 241
\ Publishers WeeklyWriter and former FBI special agent Owens recounts 30 years as a G-man in this funny, thought-provoking memoir. Fresh out of law school, Owens signed on with J. Edgar Hoover's all-white, all-male bureau in 1969. Presenting his work as a series of telling anecdotes, Owens often finds the comedy in his job (the standard punchline involves surprisingly easy-to-find fugitives) as well as the thrills, such as a stint with the FBI SWAT team, putting down a 1987 Atlanta prison riot started in part by Cuban inmates formerly held in Castro's prisons (a '94 riot followed in Alabama). Along with the tedium, ironies and tragedies of his decades in the field, Owens also details his work on one of the most shocking cases in U.S. criminal history, the Atlanta child murders in the early '80s. With a vet's cogent perspective, Owens produces a compelling and well-rounded retrospective of a life in criminal enforcement. \ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\ \
