Securing the city : inside America's best counterterror force-- the NYPD / Christopher Dickey.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-307) and index.

The scramble for safety -- The cop: the rise of Ray Kelly -- The spy: the unusual career of David Cohen -- The dark side: Cohen among the clandestines -- The city: Anatomy of a target -- The battleground: Manhattan and Megiddo -- The black sites: Ways of making them talk -- The second wave: not the best-laid plans -- Building the system -- Safe streets: cops on dots -- Showtime: surges and scuba -- Red cells: the Counter terrorism Bureau -- Green clouds: Weapons of mass disruption -- Narrative: Iranian probes-2003 -- The warehouse: from sharing to trading -- The Feds: against them and with them -- Narrative: the Madrid bombings-2004 -- Neighbors: other cities, other states -- Apathy: rising threats and waning patience -- Anger: conventions and causes -- Narrative: the London bombings-2005 -- The precarious balance -- Bad numbers: the battle for morale -- Loners and copycats: the contract on Kelly -- Clusters: homegrown terrorism and national resources -- The French Connection: confronting chaos -- Rings of steel: defending ground zero -- Urban legends: of eccentrics and immigrants -- New Year's Eve: the countdown.

The NYPD is the best and most ambitious antiterror operation in the world. Its seat-of-the-pants intelligence is the gold standard for all others. Drawing on unparalleled access to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and other top officials, Dickey explores this metropolitan police department's intelligence operation and its methods, some of which are highly worrisome.