The Most Popular FBI Books

By Mattie MacDonald


The history of FBI, its operations, success and challenges have attracted the attention of numerous writers leading to an avalanche of exciting books. There are exiting propaganda, reality accounts and personal testimonies from former workers. The most popular FBI books are written by insiders who seek to offer the juicy part of the life of an organization whose operations are surrounded by secrecy.

Enemies is a title by Tim Weiner that gives an account of the growth of this institution into what it is now. The author has worked for the organization and CIA at a certain point. He is a recipient of Pulitzer award as a confirmation of his writing prowess. It details how presidents have used the institutions to achieve their political goals.

Kessler Ronald uses his journalistic skills to compile The Bureau. He has interviewed one of the persons who headed the institution in the past. He is considered an award winning journalist who uses his wits to build relevance to an event that happened years ago. He gives a perfect account of how the September 11th attack caught everyone by surprise.

The Afghanistan experience presented Christopher de Bellaigue with a perfect script for the book What Only Soldiers Understand. He follows Private Juan Sebastian into combat with vivid description of bullets and explosions on earth, metal and wood, among other surfaces. It gives the reader a first hand experience of what it means to be in the battle field.

The rejection by the Supreme Court in 1959 of a petition by her husband is the subject of this novel entitled How FBI Turned Me On that is written by Zemon Natalie Davis. The petition was filed to question the legality of a house committee on non-American affairs. The court refused to here the petition but the message had been passed across. Natalie got the idea after being asked to reflect on her past after she was awarded National Humanities Medal.

Fiction has also been inspired by the operations of Federal Bureau of Investigation. In Point Blank, two agents, Sherlock and Savich are married and working on a murder and kidnapping case. The kidnappers have a personal vendetta with Savich. Their next victim happens to be Sherlock. The thrill is how Savich balances romance and career to save Sherlock without appearing to pay unnecessary attention to the case.

The Man Who Kept Secrets is a biography of the leader of CIA. This book is written by Powers Thomas about Richard Helms. The thrill that comes with each chapter makes it appear like the work of fiction. It is exemplifies the great story telling skills of Thomas Powers.

Eyeball to Eyeball is an account given by Dino Brugioni about the Cuban missile crisis. It is made curiously interesting when one considers that Dino was a top CIA officer during the crisis. This makes it a careful recording of the crisis from within.

The mixture of facts and fiction about the bureau makes these books more interesting. There is a juicy part that is not known to the public whenever these stories are told. While factual titles give first hand experiences, fictional titles seek to build a speculative and juicy story alongside what is known to the public. This adds to the thrill of flipping through the chapters.




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