Standing next to history : an agent's life inside the Secret Service
(Book)

Includes index.

Joseph Petro served for twenty-three years a a special agent in the United States Secret Service, eleven of them at the White House and four of those as the man on the shoulder of Ronald Reagan. From his days as an investigator in the field, to his time as the man on whom the life of the president depended, Petro's journey through history is a singular look inside the most discreet law enforcement agency in the world.