![]() I am, by nature, a solitary person, comfortable being alone for long periods of time. I’ll do the next best thing now-write about that captivating life. ![]() It is a huge relief, but at the same time, it’s still difficult to accept that those incredible FBI challenges will never be available again and that chapter of my life is closed forever. After 30+ plus years of sticking my head in the lion’s mouth on almost a daily basis waiting for the massive jaws to clamp down, that one potential bad day is over forever. Chuckle if you will, but it is the honest truth. Sometimes, as Mike discovered, the bad guys you are targeting aren't your only adversary.The biggest difference between my previous real FBI life working undercover and my post-career writing FBI fictional thrillers is simple-I can’t get shot or stabbed sitting at my kitchen table pecking away at computer keystrokes. His story shows the FBI's success isn't based on a system but the extraordinary efforts of individual Agents who find a way to make their cases despite all obstacles. "Few Agents in the history of the FBI have exposed themselves to more risk and performed with equal professionalism and integrity as Mike McGowan. A must read." -Joseph Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco McGowan proves to be one of the top UCAs in the FBI. "An excellent look into the murky world of Undercover. I couldn’t put it down.” -Don Mann, longtime member of SEAL Team 6 and New York Times bestselling author. McGowan’s career as an undercover FBI Special Agent takes you into the soul of this unsung American hero, and into the strip clubs, and hotel suites where he outwitted the world’s top criminals-including three Italian Mafia families, the Russian Mob, and El Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel. “Michael McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo’s brilliant and unflinching account of Mr. "Propulsive.Will appeal to readers curious about the undercover lifestyle and the inner workings of federal law enforcement." - Kirkus Reviews Ghost is the ultimate insider's account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government, and a testament to the incredible work of the FBI. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. ![]() In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. ![]() Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael R. The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.
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