The FBI Story, adapted for young people by Don Whitehead from his famous best-seller of a few years ago, and containing a new chapter, "A Career in the FBI," especially written for this book, takes you behind the scenes to reveal the Bureau's never-ending battle against crime and subversion. Each chapter makes absorbing reading:

A Mystery at Turkey Creek—How FBI agents tracked down the criminal who murdered Adolph Coors III, wealthy Colorado businessman, a few years ago.

2,000 Miles of Danger—The step-by-step action taken by the FBI in 1958, when a man desperately in need of money threatened to blow up a train unless he received half a million dollars from the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Spies and Saboteurs—The early days of the Bureau of Investigation, a weak, untrained agency on which the government had to depend for internal security when World War I broke out.

New Enemies to Fight—The years of unrest and terrorism following World War I, when Ku Klux Klan was rising to power, and a young man named J. Edgar Hoover became acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation.

The Outlaws Come to Power—The period of the Roaring Twenties and Thirties, when gangsters, Capone, Lepke Buchalter and others thought themselves above the law.

Underworld Terror—The kidnapping and murder of a baby boy in New Jersey, the shooting down by gangsters' guns of six law enforcement officers in Kansas City, and the kidnapping of a wealthy oil man from his home in Oklahoma.

The FBI Fights Back—How FBI agents, under the personal direction of J. Edgar Hoover, put an end to the infamous John Dillinger, and made the FBI feared by criminals the country over.

War and a New Enemy—Of the prompt action taken by the FBI when the news of Pearl Harbor broke.

Saboteurs Land from the Sea—Capturing all the German saboteurs who were put ashore at Long Island and Florida in 1942 by two German U-boats.

Danger from South of the Border —In 1961, a Communist sympathizer and his son, who had boarded a regular passenger plane at Phoenix, Arizona, ordered the pilot at gunpoint to fly the plane out of the country ...

The Hollow Nickel Spy Case—How a thirteen-year-old newsboy played a part in helping capture a Soviet spy.

Trailing the Atom Bomb Spies—Bringing to justice the traitors who stole atomic secrets from the United States during World War II.

The Death of a Boy—How the FBI solved the brutal kidnap-murder of Bobby Greanlease, Jr., in 1953.

The Christmas Gift of Murder—The painstaking investigation that led to the solution of the mystery surrounding a passenger plane that exploded in the air minutes after leaving the airport at Denver.

Fingerprints and the Scientist—Unusual cases in which crimes have been solved, missing persons located, and men and women saved from prison—sometimes even from death—by means of fingerprints.

A Career in the FBI—In return for loyalty and hard work, the FBI offers more than an exciting way of life, as this highly interesting chapter shows.

As you read this thrilling and informative book, written by a distinguished reporter who has twice won a Pulitzer Prize, you will understand why Americans take pride in their FBI.

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