Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent

by George Rush

Book Overview

For over a decade, Marty Venker went wherever the President went, his eyes moving all the time, his body bristling with lethal energy and alertness. In this funny, candid behind-the-scenes look at life with some of the world's most powerful men and women--Nixon, Ford, Carter, Imelda Marcos, and others--Venker reveals how the Secret Service scopes out a crowd, and more. Fine.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671679422
• ISBN13: 9780671679422
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The leading civilian Secret Service authority approves :)

As the leading civilian authority on the U.S. Secret Service, I get a kick out of Marty Venker: he is alot like one of his evident heroes, Brooks Keller (the wild former agent chronicled briefly in both his book and Dennis McCarthy's). Venker's book, actually 'written' by George Rush, is a funny yet informative chronicle of a square peg in a round hole---Venker, the wild child, trying to conform to rigid, structured, pressure-packed duty as a Special Agent. The lack of an index will frustrate you (at least in the paperback), but there are many nice nuggets and anecdotes to be found here. Get this at once!