Books

May, 1995

Ever since the waning days of J. Edgar Hoover's reign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a public relations problem. Recent criticism of triggerhappy, malicious and bureaucratic feds may, however, be washed aside by Hard Evidence (Simon & Schuster), David Fisher's impressive portrait of the FBI Criminal Laboratory. This book reveals exciting advances in forensics at this center for crime detection, and it details case after case in which scientific analysis has foiled contemporary crim...