The Fight: A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine

Dan Bongino spent twelve years inside the Secret Service, including time on the elite Presidential Protection Division serving three presidents. What he saw from that vantage point, the bureaucratic dysfunction, the political theater, the security failures that real people paid for with their lives, is what eventually drove him out. In The Fight, he picks up where his previous book left off and takes on the specific failures of the Obama-era security and political apparatus: Hillary's emails and the handling of classified material, the drone crash on the White House lawn, the fence jumper who made it inside, the fallout from Charlie Hebdo, the Bowe Bergdahl swap. Each episode gets the treatment of someone who understands from the inside how these decisions get made and what the consequences of making them badly actually look like. Bongino is not simply cataloguing failures for sport. He offers solutions, to the growing terrorist threat, to the broken political process, to the gap between how Washington works and what the American people actually need from it. Most Americans only encounter security when they pass through an airport scanner. The Fight gives them a view of the machinery behind it, and a frank account of why that machinery has been failing them.