BOMBERS, HIJACKERS, BODY SCANNERS, AND JIHADISTS

About the Book

In the timeline relevant to Billie H. Vincent’s watch, terrorist attacks against world aviation are on the rise.  Vincent weaves his plot with the motives of these radicals, their causes, and the religious biases for extremist Islamic Jihadist attacks on a global scale to his protagonist’s story.  Billie has his hands full dealing with these threats and helping out other nations in their aviation security efforts.  The threats and attacks, in actual terms, have left a permanent impact on Western society and aviation in particular.

Vincent knows all the ins and outs of the business.  His book is replete with all the hardcore technology that are an aficionado’s dream, the LED monitors light up the twilight world of the first line of defense for all airline passengers against all who might threaten the security of airports and airlines.  Billie and an international company of aviation security experts come up against the attempted bombing of an international Pan-American Airlines flight to Rio de Janerio.  Over the previous two weeks they had been investigating a bomb that exploded on a flight out of Tokyo’s Narita airport that killed a Japanese youth going to a vacation in Hawaii.

Vincent faces a new generation of terrorists of the era – bombs sneaked in a variety of ingenious ways into the planes and terminals abound in this dangerous world.  Will he and his elite profession of dedicated men and women be able to stand up against all aviation security threats?  The answer is, they will have to because the lives of innocents are at stake.  Billie shows readers exactly how in this gripping Bombers, Hijackers, Body Scanners, And Jihadists.

About the Author

Mr. Vincent served for 34 years in the US Government in Air Traffic Control, Training, Regulatory Activities and Aviation Security, and now 26 years in the private sector. He has spent the last 30 years in the field of aviation security and counter-terrorism and has written, instructed and spoken extensively on the subject. Mr. Vincent’s firm, Aerospace Services International, Inc. (ASI) that he founded and has run for the past 26 years did the security master planning for several of the world’s new major airports over the past two decades, e.g., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Incheon, South Korea; Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok), Thailand; and Abu Dhabi. In some of these airports his firm also provided the security conceptual design and prepared the security procedures and other documents for the new airport. Mr. Vincent’s firm has also been engaged in the design and oversight of the construction of several Head-of-State properties in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the UK. Noteworthy is the fact that his firm specified the security systems for a Head-of-State new Boeing 747 and provided the oversight while the security systems were being installed. During this time ASI also provided Head-of-State and other high-level officials security protection for several persons traveling within the U.S. Mr. Vincent is a graduate of Dowling College in New York, has an MPA from Auburn University, Montgomery Campus, Alabama. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Air War College in residence at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama. He had the pleasure of serving on the staff of a congressman for 9 months in 1980 in a Legislative Fellowship program while a member of the FAA. He is also a graduate of a variety of U.S. Government schools and courses too numerous to mention in this brief bio.