Securing the city: inside America's best counterterror force: the NYPD [First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition] 9781416594383, 1416594388

Table of contents :
The scramble for safety. The cop : the rise of Ray Kelly
The spy : the unusual career of David Cohen
The dark side : Cohen among the clandestines
The city : Anatomy of a target
The battleground : Manhattan and Megiddo --
The black sites : ways of making them talk --
The second wave : not the best-laid plans --
Building the system. Safe streets : cops on dots
Showtime : surges and scuba
Red cells : the Counter Terrorism Bureau
Green clouds : weapons of mass disruption
Narrative : Iranian probes, 2003
The warehouse : from sharing to trading
The Feds : against them and with them
Narrative : the Madrid bombings, 2004
Neighbors : other cities, other states
Apathy : rising threats and waning patience
Anger : conventions and causes
Narrative : the London bombings, 2005 --
The precarious balance. Bad numbers : the battle for morale
Loners and copycats : the contract on Kelly
Clusters : homegrown terrorism and national resources
The French Connection : confronting chaos
Rings of steel : defending Ground Zero
Urban legends : of eccentrics and immigrants
New Year's Eve : the countdown --
Appendix. A note on target cities.

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