The professional paranoid : how to fight back when being investigated, surveilled, stalked, harassed or targetted by an agency, organisation or individual

The Professional Paranoid by H. Michael Sweeney. Feral House. 1998. The horror stories revealed during last year's testimony from hundreds of citizens targeted by vigilante Internal Revenue Service agents reveal a frightening reality of modern America -- everyone is vulnerable to zealous organizations and individuals. For many people, fear of harassment comes not from government agencies but from harder-to-trace entities such as religious cults, criminals, private detectives, and sociopathic stalkers. As a complement to Gavin de Becher's recent bestseller The Gift of Fear, security specialist H. Michael Sweeney provides both psychological and technical advice on dealing with a variety of harassers, casting his net more widely than other competing titles by including the "good guys" -- cops, federal agencies, and corporate bullies -- as well as the bad guys usually associated with systematic harassment.