Copy of a Treasury investigator’s handbook (Sources of Information) showing all the places to hunt for incriminating dirt on a perpetrator. Chapters include “Information From Persons,” “Records of Business and Financial Institutions” and “Sources of Information in the Federal Government.” Hundreds of sources listed. GR

Publisher: Eden
Paperback: 47 pages
Illustrated

“Bust Bad Cops! Fight Crimes of Dishonesty! Pry Into Personal Affairs! Fight Sex Offenders! Spread the Dirt!” For the muckraker in us all: How to get dirty information on anybody. “You can use the public record to get the lowdown on a lover. Or find out which doctors, lawyers, contractors, salespeople, or other businesspeople to trust and which to avoid. If someone has done you wrong, you can use the public record to find out and expose his or her record of wrongdoing.” The “public record” contains criminal and legal information; coroner, medical and professional malpractice records; individual and corporate tax records; real estate, zoning, planning and land-use records, etc. Private investigators do it—why not you? Includes PC diskette. GR

Publisher: Flores
Paperback: 244 pages

An associate professor of statistics looks at the taxman’s auditing system and finds it wanting. “After analyzing thousands of tax returns from around the country, [the author] has finally broken the secret statistical code the IRS uses.” From this research, he “can predict with a high degree of accuracy which of more than 100 million returns filed annually will be audited and which will be spared.” Find out how to prepare taxes in a way that will lessen the chances of an audit. And, if audited, how to deal with the intimidation process the IRS teaches its field agents. Aczel should know, his nightmare audit took two years! GR

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Paperback: 191 pages
Illustrated

How to conduct private surveillance, if only it were legal. Extensive details on state-of-the-art bugging transmitters, surveillance recorders, shotgun microphones, and all the other goodies that spies, P.I.s and the U.S. government use. Niftiest item: Letter Bomb Visualizer (liquid Freon), “makes paper into glass for 30 seconds and then dries without a trace.” Gadgets also include scramblers, bug detectors and other countermeasures. Plus chapters on assembling information on people, skip-tracing, beating lie-detector tests, etc. With field test results, improvement tips, where-to-buy, and more. GR

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 264 pages
Illustrated

How to stay smart and alert in our increasingly complicated environment that is full of daily shocks and surprises. “Packed with proven safety techniques, expert tips and survival methods you can use in your everyday life,” including:
• How burglars choose a home.
• How to talk to children about crime, carry valuables safely and survey your neighborhood for hot spots.
• Should you make eye contact with suspicious strangers?
• What to do when confronted by gangs.
• How to prepare yourself mentally to shoot at an intruder, coming home to an intruder, and what to say when you’ve got the drop on one.
• Twenty steps to take to prevent a carjacking. GR

Publisher: Flores
Paperback: 218 pages
Illustrated

“A citizen’s guide to using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to request government records.” Spells out the scope of these two historic acts, then explains which one is best for the reader’s needs. Chapters include: “What Records Can Be Requested Under the FOIA?”; “Requirements for Agency Response”; and “Reasons Access May Be Denied.” Also “Making a Privacy Act Request for Access”; and “Administrative Appeal Procedures for Denial of Access.” Includes a sample request form and a list of Federal Information Centers. GR

Publisher: Eden
Paperback: 65 pages

“Exposes the 'science' of lie detection and shows how screening tests can be influenced by mechanical tricks, drugs, practice and knowledge. The FBI, IRS, CIA, job-screening firms, detectives and others use the polygraph, graphology, drug-screening tests, and kinesic interviewing. Do they really work? Will you lose a job, get fined or even go to jail because of a false positive on a shaky system? Learn how these systems work and how to manipulate the tests and testers to mislead anyone, anytime—and get away with it.” GR

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 168 pages
Illustrated

“A vast phalanx of minimum-wage earners, keying in data on computers, tracks our every move, silently and relentlessly recording details about our private lives… It is collected, sorted, packaged and sold on a daily basis to others. To any others! Who are these clowns anyway?” Explains in detail how credit bureaus gather information on people, as well as the sale and use of an electronic invention of TRW and Equifax called a “national identifier.“ This program is used by skip tracers, collection agencies, etc., to pull information into a person’s files, such as a new address, and so on. Also explains TECS (the Treasury Enforcement Computer System), which can be used to search both multiple government and private databases, merrily gathering facts on citizens for who knows what reason. GR

Publisher: Index
Paperback: 204 pages
Illustrated

Reveals what a body is worth and how to sell it. “Harvest your body while you’re alive” is the theme—and “sell the leftovers” once you’ve croaked. How to make spare cash by signing off your organs, body fluids and bodily functions to science, and volunteering to be an experimental guinea pig. “When an organ donor dies, more than a million dollars’ worth of medical procedures are set in motion… Everybody profits from organ donation except the donor. But that’s about to change.” Outside the United States, your heart is worth up to $20,000. “A kidney fetches up to $50,000—and it’s legal to sell one in many countries… you can legally sell your blood, milk, sperm, hair, and other renewable resources… You can also make a living as a human guinea pig, renting your body to drug companies. It pays up to $100 a day, and this book lists over 150 test sites throughout the USA.” Remember, “every part of your body is of some use to someone.” GR

Publisher: Loompanics
Paperback: 168 pages
Illustrated

Real gone goods for real gone ninjas. This massive volume (it weighs 2 pounds) starts off with updated advice on being a technological ninja (poisons, shooting knives, etc.), then explodes into a surveillance superbook. It's a where-to-get-it surveillance-gear catalog, complete with field test data and warnings as to what's legal or not in the USA. Also covers defensive driving, computer security, lie-detector countermeasures, surreptitious infrared audio monitoring, laser communications, secure phones, infrared photography, ID tricks and tons more 007-level concerns. Plus chapters on customizing your handgun, snap-shooting techniques, bulletproof clothing etc. The Sears catalog of the spy world. GR

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 520 pages
Illustrated