Espionage & Investigation: Private Investigation Books, Videos

Very few jobs today offer the mystique, excitement and fun of being a private eye. Once a fixture of old movies and cheap detective novels, today's private investigator is an important player in the modern business world, filling gaps where law-enforcement officers cannot or will not tread. And there's plenty of work to be had - if you know where to find it and, most importantly, how to get paid for it.

Author Russ Bubas has spent 35 years in the business and now runs a successful corporate private investigation firm with more than 1,000 clients nationwide. In Be a Big Time, Big Deal Private Eye, Bubas provides an entertaining introduction to private investigation as an adventurous, profitable and satisfying career. He describes the common (and not so common) slices of the modern PI business, including who uses these services and why, and he tells you how to price your work correctly so you can make a good living at it. Bubas uses fascinating stories from his long career to show you how PIs operate in the real world - whether it's staking out crooked employees in downtown bars, working undercover in major corporations or performing any number of other assignments that modern PIs are expected to do. Finally, he shows you how to establish and run your own business like a professional, from setting up shop to landing your first clients to marketing your services the right way.

Russ Bubas is the owner of Data Quests, Ltd., which he built from a small, local detective agency to a corporate private investigations firm with international capabilities and a client base of more than 1,000 companies
$20.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-638-6 144 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos

From the author of the highly regarded training manuals Secrets of Surveillance and Surveillance Countermeasures comes the next course in identifying and evading hostile surveillance in the real world.

Every day in all parts of the world, hostile surveillance forces are stalking and exploiting unwitting prey -- be they private citizens, corporate employees or national security agents. This book demonstrates how the intended prey can detect, evade and, if necessary, turn the tables and assume the role of the predator to neutralize this threat.

This is not a book on evading garden-variety physical surveillance. Instead, this important manual provides the security professional with the tools he needs to operate at a master's level in the field of surveillance countermeasures. In step-by-step detail, it explains concepts, techniques and procedures that have been proven effective against the spectrum of surveillance capabilities ranging from the very basic to the world's most sophisticated.

Security professionals who want to be on top of their game, as well as private citizens seeking to protect themselves and their families, need the street-tested information in this book

ACM IV Security Services is a private consulting firm that specializes in security and intelligence disciplines, to include antiterrorism, counterintelligence, human intelligence, competitive intelligence, investigations and strategic intelligence analysis. ACM IV provides exclusive training and consulting services with a focus on targeting and countering the world's most threatening adversarial elements. ACM IV considers its selective public domain publications, of which Countering Hostile Surveillance is the latest offering, as contributions to, and unparalleled resources for, security professionals.
$18.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-636-2 132 pages 8.5" x 11" illustrations

Learn from a pro the secrets of collecting back child support, court judgments and other "uncollectible" bills by balancing legal issues with street realities. Plus, how to set up your business, attract well-paying clients, ensure delivery of installment payments and make sure you get your money up front. For academic study only.
$15.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-028-5 128 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

If your goal is to launch a career in private investigation, you've got to do your homework. This self-paced, hands-on workbook and guide will prep you on education and training, licensing, office equipment and supplies, marketing, field equipment, report writing, photography and videotaping, firearms and more.
$18.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-954-4 128 pages 5.5" x 8.5

Get an inside look into today's investigation business from eight top PIs, all with different specialities. Find out how they got into the field and the tricks they use to solve cases. Learn the latest on investigating murders, using high-tech devices, going undercover, procuring evidence and more. A must for anyone considering becoming a PI.
$30.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-782-3 320 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Whether you're a veteran or aspiring private investigator, a successful career is no longer possible by relying solely on traditional investigative practices. Skillful use of desktop computers, specialized software and the Internet are the keys to success in the PI trade today. Private Investigation in the Computer Age introduces you to the latest computer tools and resources that will enable you to work more quickly and efficiently. The author seamlessly weaves "old school" and Computer Age tactics to help you handle everything from bread-and-butter missing persons and surveillance cases, to fast-changing fields like heir finding, to the entirely new area of computer monitoring and surveillance. Just some of the things you will learn from this book include how to:

* squeeze clues from e-mail headers to help find a runaway child or identify a cyberstalker
* recover deleted data in order to find incriminating evidence on a subject's hard drive
* unravel complicated money trails without ever leaving your desk
* monitor everything a suspect types into his computer, even as he's entering it
* prepare impressive, airtight reports for clients and courtroom testimony

A computer-illiterate PI is a dinosaur. Before the pavement-pounding old-timer steps off the curb outside his office, his computer-savvy competitors will have already received via the Internet the same public data he's off to fetch. So get this book, get with the program, and get those cases – and profits – now.

Bud Jillett is a licensed private detective working in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has more than a decade of experience as an heir finder, and has solved hudreds of missing persons cases. His current focus os on computer monitoring and Internet surveillance.
$25.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-417-7 176 pages 8.5" x 11" photos, illust.

Most Paladin readers know Ragnar Benson as a survivalist, a powder monkey, a trapper, a hunter and a dispenser of survival medicine, but how many know that he has been involved in the PI business for more than 25 years? In this, his first book on the subject of investigations, Ragnar offers readers two books in one. He reveals how PIs, cops and military interrogators conduct interviews, investigations and interrogations, and he also shows prospective witnesses how to survive them. For investigators, he shares his professional secrets and real-life scenarios for creating effective pretexts for any situation, opening up a witness and keeping him talking, recognizing and "listening" to nonverbal clues and deciding whether to use honey or vinegar to get the desired results. Then he turns the tables on his fellow investigators and gives potential witnesses specific tips for avoiding – or at least surviving – the tactics, techniques and tricks favored by skilled investigators. Whether you want to be an investigator or avoid one, you won't want to miss this book.

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$15.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-095-7 120 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos

Pros know that the real secret of surveillance lies in the skill of the operators, not in high-tech gadgets. This book is for the true practitioners of the craft. It focuses on tactics that can only be learned from stalking the streets and standing in the shadows.

ACM IV Security Services is a private consulting firm that specializes in security and intelligence disciplines, to include antiterrorism, counterintelligence, human intelligence, competitive intelligence, investigations and strategic intelligence analysis. ACM IV provides exclusive training and consulting services with a focus on targeting and countering the world's most threatening adversarial elements.
$25.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-722-9 244 pages 5.5" x 8.5" illustrations

The most interesting - and lucrative - aspect of private investigations is surveillance. This manual teaches you the nuts and bolts of the craft: how to uncover information by tailing a subject and documenting his actions in photographs or videotape. Learn what it's like on the streets, as well as what equipment and tools you'll need for each job.
$20.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-665-9 96 pages 8.5" x 11" photos

Learn to detect and evade surveillance efforts that threaten your personal security. These time-tested tactics of observation, detection and evasion are proven effective against the most sophisticated surveillance techniques used in the world.

ACM IV Security Services is a private consulting firm that specializes in security and intelligence disciplines, to include antiterrorism, counterintelligence, human intelligence, competitive intelligence, investigations and strategic intelligence analysis. ACM IV provides exclusive training and consulting services with a focus on targeting and countering the world's most threatening adversarial elements.
$20.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-763-2 192 pages 5.5" x 8.5" illustrations

Find out how the world's best money launderers evade sohisticated high-tech detection measures and move money freely in the electronic age. Also find out the latest international law enforcement countermeasures for stopping this illegal flow of money. A must for cops, lawyers, PIs and others.

Brett F. Woods is the author of numerous articles and books in the areas of military history, police science and government financial operations. A Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, he has held a number of law enforcement and regulatory positions, including Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service; Inspector General, New Mexico Human Services Department; and Commissioner for Law Enforcement, New Mexico Gaming Control Board. His professional affiliations have included the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Narcotics Officers Association and the Association of the United States Army.
$25.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-969-8 208 pages 5.5" x 8.5"