Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern : Routledge : 9780367613020 : 0367613026 : 30 Nov 2020 : Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the ?secret colleges? of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not arrive quickly enough to save everyone. Based on extensive interviews with both special forces and other security operators who seek to protect the public, and survivors of terrorist attacks, Getting Through Security ranges from targeted European airports to African malls and hotels to explore counterterrorism today. Maguire and Westbrook reflect on what these practices mean for the bureaucratic state and its violence, and offer suggestions for the perennial challenge to secure not just modern life, but humane politics. Mark Maguire has long had extraordinary access to a series of counterterrorism prog