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  • Boots in the Ashes

  • Busting Bombers, Arsonists and Outlaws as a Trailblazing Female ATF Agent
  • Written by: Cynthia Beebe
  • Narrated by: Cynthia Beebe
  • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Boots in the Ashes

Written by: Cynthia Beebe
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The thrilling career of ATF agent Cynthia Beebe is told through the lens of six-high profile cases involving bombings, arson, and the Hell's Angels.

Boots in the Ashes is the memoir of Cynthia Beebe's groundbreaking career as one of the first women special agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF). A smart and independent girl growing up in suburban Chicago, she unexpectedly became one of the first women to hunt down violent criminals for the federal government.

As a special agent for 27 years, Beebe gives the listener first-hand knowledge of the human capacity for evil. She tells the story of how, as a young woman, she overcame many obstacles on her journey through the treacherous world of illegal guns, gangs, and bombs. She battled conflicts both on the streets and within ATF. But Beebe learned how to thrive in the ultra-masculine world of violent crime and those whose job it is to stop it.

Beebe tells her story through the lens of six major cases that read like crime fiction: four bombings, one arson fire, and a massive roundup of the Hell's Angels on the West Coast. She also shares riveting never before revealed trial testimonies, including killers, bombers, arsonists, victims, witnesses, and judges.

©2020 Cynthia Beebe (P)2020 Center Street
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"Cynthia Beebe captures her remarkable career as the country's first female Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) agent in her memoir, Boots in the Ashes. She was hired in 1987, and her story is astonishing - even now when women account for only 16 percent of Criminal Investigators in the Department of Justice's Law Enforcement component. In one case after another, Beebe reveals how her fearlessness and valor commanded the respect of her extremely masculine peers and even the vicious criminals she investigated.... Well worth reading! (Fern Schumer Chapman, author of Motherland and It Is Night or Day)

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I really enjoyed this book! I've never read anything like it and it was truly fascinating!

held me captivated basically from start to finish and will be seeking other stories like this!

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