Very Special Agents: The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency-The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

by James Moore

When James Moore joined the ATF in 1960, it was an arm of the Internal Revenue Service with one job: to catch the Mafia bootleggers whose distilleries cheated Uncle Sam of millions in tax revenue. During his twenty-five years of service, Moore saw the organization shift to enforcing of gun laws, be reborn as a separate bureau, and take on bombings and arson cases that most law officers wrote off as impossible to solve.

Moore's personal, from-the-hip...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070259
• ISBN13: 9780252070259
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 7.8"