In the President's Secret Service

Behind the scenes of agents in the line of fire and the Presidents that they protect.

Never before has a journalist penetrated the walls of secrecy that surrounds the US secret service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the President and his family.  After conducting exclusive interviews of more than one hundred current and former secret service agents, best selling author and award winning reporter Ronald Kessler, reveals their secrets for the first time.

Secret services agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the President's inner circle.  Kessler reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the Presidents, from  John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, cabinet officers, and white house aides. 

Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carry out their missions-from how they are trained to how they spot and assess potential threats.  With fly-on-the-wall perspective, he captures the drama and tension that characterize agents' lives

In this headline-grabbing book, Kessler discloses assassination attempts that have never before been revealed.  He shares inside accounts of past assaults that would put the secret service to the test, including a heroic gun battle that took the would-be assassins of Harry S. Truman, the devasting day that JFK was killed in Dallas, and the swift actions that saved Ronald Reagan after he was shot.

While secret service agents are brave and dedicated, Kessler exposes how secret service management in recent years has betrayed his mission by cutting corners, risking the assassination of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families.  Given the lax standards, "It's a miracle we have not had a successful assassination" a current agent says.

Since an assassination jeopardizes democracy itself, few agencies are as important as the secret service-nor is any other subject as tantalizing as the inner sanctum of the White House.  Only tight lipped secret service agents know the real story, and Ronald Kessler is the only journalist to have won their trust.

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