Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI

by Candice DeLong | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0786867078 Global Overview for this book
Registered by HI77 of Fort Myers, Florida USA on 5/3/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by HI77 from Fort Myers, Florida USA on Tuesday, May 3, 2016
A woman that knows

her stuff is hot,
with bullets for teeth.

Journal Entry 2 by HI77 at Fort Myers, Florida USA on Friday, May 6, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (5/6/2016 UTC) at Fort Myers, Florida USA

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This lovely little book has dressed itself in nakedness and a few well placed balloons! ;)

And so it's ready to join the Party for the 2016 Birthday Rabck Group! :D

Here's to a new dance for a new year! So slip on your party shoes and dust off your hat... It's your day. It's your time. Give them enough to talk about for a good hundred years! >;)

Journal Entry 3 by Boekentrol at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Wednesday, June 15, 2016
If I've followed your advice to give them something to talk about for the next hundred years I don't know for sure.
I did have a wonderful day, not in the least because of the well wishes and presents from you and the other generous BookCrossers.

Thanks for sending me this book from my wishlist. I look forward to reading it!

Journal Entry 4 by Boekentrol at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Thursday, January 9, 2025
Why would I rate a book that was once on my wishlist a meager 6 stars. The book, a memoir, with a (sub)title that suggests a lot of interesting stories about the career of a woman in the FBI, back in the days when women were a minority in that organization.

Well, there are a few reasons.
First of all it didn't really feel like a memoir. Despite Candice telling her story in the first person and bringing in a few morsels of her personal life, it was more a book about (types of) cases she worked as an agent.
The second reason follows from that. She writes she has encountered difficulties due to her being female, but apart from some superficial remarks and general descriptions, I don't feel in het words that she's had tough times as a result of it. Too bad, because that was what the book was all about. At least I thought so.

And lastly, from time to time the book was very patronizing. Especially in the last chapter. Won't give away spoilers, but had my son still been a small child, that would have got me fuming.

So all in all: interesting cases, but not such a great book. I wonder if the approval by the Bureau made it this bland?

Journal Entry 5 by Boekentrol at Paddy O'Ryan Irish Pub in Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Thursday, January 16, 2025

Released 1 mo ago (1/16/2025 UTC) at Paddy O'Ryan Irish Pub in Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands

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In the green bookcase outside the side entrance of Paddy's. Across the alley from the butcher's.

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