In Crime's Way

by Carmine J. Motto

Book Overview

A retired Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service's special anti-counterfeiting detail in New York and author of the bestseller Undercover, Carmine J. Motto has lived a long and storied life. From witnessing a triple execution at New York's notorious Sing-Sing prison to thwarting an assassination attempt on the life of Harry Truman, Motto's name would make the list of any Law Enforcement Hall of Fame. In fact, so renowned are his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849322596
• ISBN13: 9780849322594
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Carmine and Robert Motto: brothers in the Secret Service

I highly recommend this thriller of a book. Very well written as well. For True Crime ethusiasts. For the Secret Service enthusiasts, some interesting background--- Robert J. Motto, 88, a former Secret Service agent who protected five presidents in his 21-year career, died Tuesday, March 19, 2002, in his Downers Grove, Illinois, home after a heart attack. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Motto attended City College of New York and served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946 in counterintelligence. After the war, he was an investigator with the U.S. Postal Service in New York. Mr. Motto joined the Secret Service in 1949 and over the years worked in field offices in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Springfield and Washington, D.C. He retired in 1970 as the assistant to the special agent in charge of the Chicago field office. Mr. Motto and his late brother Carmine, also a Secret Service agent, were renowned for their undercover work, colleagues and family members said. "Both my dad and my uncle were very, very low-key people," said Mr. Motto's niece, Irene Kaufman. "I think that's what helped them both be very successful undercover agents." Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.) Pittsburgh, PA BEST JFK ASSASSINATION BOOK: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE BEST JFK SECRET SERVICE BOOK: SURVIVOR'S GUILT BY YOURS TRULY :)