According to the book description of Security Matters: Essays on
Industrial Security, "Francis Hamit spent more than twenty years in the
security industry as a guard captain, manager, sales executive, and consultant.
For seven years (1994-2000) he wrote a monthly column on industry issues,
Security Counterpoint for Security Technology & Design magazine. Much of that
material, written in a style accessible to the general reader, remains relevant
today. This book contains 32 essays that address such issues as domestic
terrorism, the role of security professionals in our society, the interactions
between business and law enforcement and little-known threats to persons and
property. This books is suitable as a supplemental readings text for academic
courses, a resource for security professionals, and an interesting and enjoyable
book for others interested in security, law enforcement, corporate culture and
loss prevention."
According to the book description of A Perfect Spy, it is "an
excerpt from Francis Hamit's much longer book Out of Step: A Memoir of the
Vietnam War Years. Set fifty years ago at the University of Iowa in Iowa City,
it is the story of how Hamit arrived there in his junior year of college as a
drama major, worked as a professional photographer, met Nicholas Meyer, played
poker with Nelson Algren, enlisted in the Sexual Revolution, and learned how to
write plays while also working undercover for law enforcement against the drug
trade. It was dangerous work; so much so that he volunteered for military
intelligence and went to Vietnam because it was safer than staying in Iowa
City."
According to the book description of The Shenandoah Spy, it is an
"Historical fact-based fiction about the famous spy who played a key role in
Stonewall Jacksons Valley Campaign. This narrative take place between July 1861
and July 1862 and is the first in a series about the Confederate Secret Service
and the women who were its most effective agents. Belle Boyd was the first woman
in American History to be formally commissioned an army officer."
According to the book description of Meltdown, it is "an
alternative history novel, set in the late 1990s. A mothballed nuclear power
plant in the Midwest, recently recommissioned, is under threat by a terrorist
group. Its security force is made up of military veterans, their new head is a
female corporate executive with no security experience, and the lead plant
technician is an aging hippie who attend science-fiction conventions. What could
go wrong?"
According to the book description of The Queen of Washington,
it is an "alternative history about Rose Greenhow and her activities as a spy
before and during the American Civil War. She was the Confederate spy who gave
the South the information it needed to win at the first Battle of Bull's run,
but had she been a spy all along, working for the French and British in their
efforts to undermine American Manifest Destiny and split the nation into two or
more new countries? The story begins in 1850 in Mexico City and San Francisco."
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