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Fidelity, Bravery, & Integrity: My Story: The True Life and Career of a FBI Special Agent
From conducting surveillance against hostile intelligence agencies to running online investigations against child predators, the FBI special agent is a highly select, highly challenging calling with rigorous mental and physical requirements. This inspiring memoir tells the story of a Pennsylvania farm boy who knew he had what it took to become one of these special agents and his gripping journey from conducting foreign counterintelligence surveillance in the 1970s to training at Quantico to investigating the Mafia, ultimately surpassing his career goals to supervise an entire FBI squad. In his quest for advancement within the agency, James Furry tells of his struggle not only against fierce competition but also to maintain his personal principles and live up to the FBI motto of fidelity, bravery, and integrity. His journey from clerical employee to organized crime coordinator reveals in vivid detail what life inside the FBI is really like.
378 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2018
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July 21, 2019
James Furry was an FBI agent for 31 years and this is his story. No huge glory cases, no flash, just his story of the daily grind and political bull that happens in any workplace. From the clerical pool to Russian surveillance and everything in between Agent Furry was competent and involved. He worked on-line child predator cases, ran the FBI organized crime unit in New York City and worked the 9-11 attacks.
This book showed the FBI as a place to work that most of us can relate to. The daily grind at times wearing you down, the regulations that sometimes make you wonder why they are in place, the supervisors who are great, some who are micromanagers and some who are just bad at their job. The times we get passed over for promotion and don't understand the reasons.
James Furry makes this a very human book by explaining how he kept attempting, in the face of all adversity, to uphold the values of the FBI - Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. How he had to pack up his life and his family and move to new cities with each transfer. How he kept his values and climbed the ladder of success and how he was forced into retirement at age 57, the bureau's mandatory age.
Bottom line: This was a good book of an average man doing unique things. A bit dry at times but worth the read for the insight into an average FBI agent.
This book showed the FBI as a place to work that most of us can relate to. The daily grind at times wearing you down, the regulations that sometimes make you wonder why they are in place, the supervisors who are great, some who are micromanagers and some who are just bad at their job. The times we get passed over for promotion and don't understand the reasons.
James Furry makes this a very human book by explaining how he kept attempting, in the face of all adversity, to uphold the values of the FBI - Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. How he had to pack up his life and his family and move to new cities with each transfer. How he kept his values and climbed the ladder of success and how he was forced into retirement at age 57, the bureau's mandatory age.
Bottom line: This was a good book of an average man doing unique things. A bit dry at times but worth the read for the insight into an average FBI agent.
August 15, 2018
Good realistic book
This a very factual book and unfortunately there were plenty of ASAC “Sams” out there. I cannot remember but 1 or 2 decent ASACs out there in my day. It was a little too long winded on bad management though.
This a very factual book and unfortunately there were plenty of ASAC “Sams” out there. I cannot remember but 1 or 2 decent ASACs out there in my day. It was a little too long winded on bad management though.
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