BOOK RECON

Category: Memoir

  • Book Release: The Burn Zone a Memoir by Renee Linnell

      ~Easily the best memoir I’ve ever read~   After seven years of faithfully following her spiritual teacher, Renee Linnell finally realized she was in a cult and had been severely brainwashed. But how did that happen to someone like her? She had graduated magna cum laude with a double degree. She had traveled to…

  • RECON: Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent

      The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.   Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of…

  • Book Alert: John McCain the Restless Wave

      In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life—and what matters most.   “I don’t know how much longer I’ll be here. Maybe I’ll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they’ll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life.…

  • Book Alert: Daughter of the Cold War (Russian and East European Studies)

      Grace Kennan Warnecke’s memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the scion of a newspaper dynasty and mother of the youngest owner of a major league baseball team, Grace eventually found her way out from under…