What’s on Shane’s Bookshelf? Part One

Shane is a prolific collector of books, which he uses for reference and for inspiration as he writes. This is the first in a series of posts that detail the titles and authors of books on his shelves.

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BOOKCASE #1

Shelf 1

Baron’s Law Dictionary 3rd edition

Criminal Procedure 5th edition

The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook

Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Beignet, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln

Homicide by David Simon

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn

The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav

The Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda

The Bureau by Ronald Kessler

A Primer of Jungian Psychology by Calvin S. Hall and Vernor J. Norby

The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti 

America’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe

Endless Enemies by Raymond W. Holcomb

U.S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking After 9/11 by M. Kent Bolton

The Threat Matrix by Garrett M. Graff

New York in the Thirties as photographed by Berenice Abbott

The Art of Intelligence by Henry A. Crumpton

America’s Secret War by George Friedman

State of War by James Risen

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton

The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

The Secret Sentry by Matthew W. Aid

Spy Sites of New York City by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace

The Pentagon’s Brain by Annie Jacobsen

Shadow Government by Tom Engelhardt

Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

The Triads by Martin Booth

Inside the CIA by Ronald Kessler

Shelf 2

3 ring binder containing the U.S. Space Academy Level 2 training manual

The Ultimate Spy Book by H. Keith Melton

Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob by Sidney Zion

PPCT Defensive Tactics Student Manual

Various issues of Police Magazine

Various issues of Law Enforcement Technology Magazine

Various issues of Sheriff & Deputy Magazine

Legion Magazine Sept/Oct 2021 issue

Super Circuits Law Enforcement Division, Law Enforcement Exclusive Catalog 2010

Preventative Policing Skills by Home Office Crime Prevention Centre

Shelby County (AL) Drug Enforcement Task Force’s Drug Identification Guide

Terrorism Response Tactics Active Shooter Level 1
by Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training

Law Enforcement Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents Participant Manual by the U.S. Department of Justice

The Anarchist’s Cookbook by William Powell

The Emotional Wound Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

Introduction to Criminal Evidence and Court Procedure 2nd Edition by Julian R Handley, Wayne W. Schmidt, and Ray K. Robbins

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

FM 21-76 U.S. Army Survival Manual

Fateful Decisions by Karl F. Inderfurth and Loch K. Johnson

The FBI by Ronald Kessler

The U.S. Intelligence Community by Jeffery T. Michelson

Pay Any Price by James Risen

Theories of Personality 4th edition by Duane Schultz

Brain, Mind, and Behavior 2nd edition by Floyd E. Bloom and Arlyne Lazerson

Ghost by Fred Burton

Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

Twin Peaks: The Secret History by Mark Frost

Shelf 3

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

War by Sebastian Junger

First Platoon by Annie Jacobsen

Special Agent by Candice DeLong

Enemies by Tim Weiner

A Cop’s Life by Sgt. Randy Sutton

Honorable Treachery by G.J.A. O’Toole

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

Securing the City by Christopher Dickey

Cold Zero by Christopher Whitcomb

Running the World by David Rothkopf

Top Secret Canada edited by Stephanie Carvin, Thomas Juneau, and Craig Forcese

The Shadow Factory by James Bamford

Crossfire Hurricane by Josh Campbell

Top Secret America by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin

Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox

Spies for Hire by Tim Shorrock

Spycraft by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton

Shelf 4

Comrade J by Pete Earley

Class 11 by T.J. Waters

The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

Fire in the Brain by Ronald K. Siegel

The Plot to Hack America by Malcolm Nance

Investigating the Russian Mafia by Joseph D. Serio

Tell My Horse by Zora Neal Hurston

The Vory by Mark Galeotti

Deep State by Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady

Warrior Citizens of America by Office of Army Reserve History HQ

Black Site by Philip Mudd

Intel Wars by Matthew M. Aid

Code Names by William M. Arkin

Thief in Law by M.G. Bullen

Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Killer Elite by Michael Smith

Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen

Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Pagan

Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor

Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner

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