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Securing the City
Securing the City
Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD  
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Prologue

Section I:
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

Section II:
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

Section III:
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

Epilogue

Appendix: A Note on Target Cities

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index