Explains in nontechnical detail how anyone can bypass a security alarm system, sometimes in seconds. The author shows the weaknesses inherent in alarm devices such as: contact switches, motion detectors, pressure pads, glass-break sensors and other types of detection devices, and describes circumvention techniques that will render most security systems inoperative. Providing an authentic look inside the security business—how alarms are installed, how they're paid for, how they are monitored and responded to—the book highlights the fact that many security services are irresponsible and are ripping off consumers by not providing the protection they are paying for. Here is plenty of advice and insider tricks on how to make systems more secure from violations, and the vital issues to raise and questions to ask when dealing with alarm installers, monitoring stations and local law enforcement. MC

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 83 pages
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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

This manual, aimed at those engaged in unconventional warfare, details how common consumer electronics can be modified to work as radio-controlled detonation devices. Subjects include: cordless electronic touch-tone phones, citizens-band radio transmitters, toy walkie-talkie systems, radio pagers, AM/FM walkmen, cellular telephones and VHF police scanners. Includes detailed reading list. MC

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 74 pages
Illustrated

The definitive article on how to stab, hit, gouge, shoot, kill, maim or otherwise disable an opponent, with the fundamental principles explained with clear photographic examples. Written in the 1940s for the Combat Section of the Military Intelligence Training Center, this classic text has been often imitated but never bettered. Includes a section on civil disturbances and their control. BW

Publisher: Paladin
Hardback: 421 pages
Illustrated

The title alludes to the assassin’s proper frame of mind, an emphatic blank, swaggerfree and beyond the concept of mercy. In these pages the gun becomes a mere fetish object, a sentimental icon of death, while the true and artful instruments of murder are apparent in a breathtakingly comprehensive array: Place a paper bag of dry ice under a person’s bed in a closed room and they’re dead the next day of carbon monoxide poisoning, the weapon evaporated. Stuff a tennis ball into another person’s mouth, and they’re asphyxiated, unable to summon the jaw strength to spit it out. Strangle someone with an industrial garbage-bag tie, called a Flex Cuff™, which is the same plastic handcuff cops use and available in neck size at automotive shops, etc. HJ

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 495 pages
Illustrated

“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
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This book was written for the Rhodesian Army Explosive Ordinance as a guide to defusing and rendering harmless improvised explosive devices. Discusses 108 different types of switches and ignition devices and the principles these devices use, with illustrations of each. Different bombing incidents are defined and categorized. Includes a system of memory-guide cards that are used to plan removal and render- safe procedures to disarm bombs; examples of questioning techniques; and plans for using detonating cord and shotguns to attempt to dispose of improvised explosive devices. MC

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 110 pages
Illustrated

A state-by-state listing of sources of public records for the investigative reporter or private eye. More than just a collection of addresses and phone numbers, the information given is very complete and includes fees, turnaround time, what restrictions there may be, and what to expect if access is made by phone or fax as opposed to a personal visit. This book will save the serious researcher phone-call money and legwork. TC

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 339 pages

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
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“Do you ever wish you had just one more chance at life—the proverbial ‘clean slate’? Do you want to shake free from those alimony payments and your lousy credit record? With New I.D. in America, you can trade in your old mistakes for a brand-new start. “An anonymous private investigator, the author specializes in helping clients ‘get lost’—permanently—and locating persons who thought they’d never be found. Now his expertise can be yours. You can create a totally new person with a bona fide birth certificate, passport, driver’s license, credit cards, Social Security number—all you need to break with your past. “You can have the reputation of being a successful, influential businessman with a prestigious address and corporate backing, or have an untraceable sheltered business savings account. Create either without fear of being caught."

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 120 pages
Illustrated