Tony Attanasio's Blog

Well, folks in case you haven't read this five star rated book, it will be free on Amazon KINDLE from May 26th to the 30th..
Exciting book about a young Sephardic Jewish girl who joins the CIA I worked with her in 1997, but this story takes place a few years later..

Also FYI....my newest (and already receiving five star reviews) ANCIENT LOYALTIES... is an exciting adventure, love story and has received academic and national acclaim for the post traumatic disorder presentation in this book.. A great story.....For some reason, women seem to really enjoy this book.

Finally, you nay have noticed, I have changed ALL the covers on my four books. Goodreads claims they have to go with the old covers?? oh well. click on each book for the new covers... let me know if you like it...or not :) Thank you, Tony Attanasio

SEE AMAZON FIVE STAR REVIEWS...A TRUE STORY OF AN NYPD INFORMANT THAT WITH AN UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE INFILTRATED LA COSA NOSTRA. THIS BOOK IS FREE ON KINDLE - FEBRUARY 22-24...THIS BOOK WILL HOLD YOUR INTEREST.

AGAIN, TOTALLY TRUE ACCOUNT OF UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS WITHIN THE NYPD/DEA/FBI...

She dwells on the terrorist attack against the USS Cole in the Gulf of Yemen and the immediate U.S. government response. Subsequently, Angela was asked to attend a secret meeting at which, CIA Director George Tenant, presidential aide Ben Skinner, FBI Director Louis Freeh, and the Joint Military Chiefs of Staff outline a plan to send two Black Hawk attack helicopters armed with hellfire missiles and 30mm cannon to soften up Bin Laden’s safe house location near Abyan, Yemen Subsequently, a separate Black Hawk lands three minutes later with its Special Forces trained crew and the four CIA operatives to mop up, capture bin Laden alive if possible, and bring him back to the U.S. for trial. Angela is asked to form an operational team and she accepts. Her suggestion that the four member team become an eight member team was denied. Her argument that the helicopter could not comfortably carry four operatives and equipment was ignored. Her next suggestion that a CIA operative be sent covertly into the target area, twelve hours prior to the attack was also denied. She argued that they would not have first hand, on the spot intelligence while her team was enroute to the target area. She also asked for permission to contact the Brit agent herself, to see if he had additional information relative to the layout of the house and knowledge of the surrounding area. This was denied.

Really never thought about writing till i did a couple of articles in the Criminal Justice arena. Did well with papers in college but that was about it.

My career and experiences allowed me to think about putting some of it in story form and in one case a true to life tale.

I decided right after 9/11 to write THE ORCHID MEMORANDUM .. This story line based on some factual circumstances in the EU and ME fell right in line as a post presentation of the thought process of radical Islam post 9/11... Worth out well with many five star reviews on
Amazon and B&N...