Derrick Levasseur. (2018). The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life's Game. Sourcebooks.

Derrick Levasseur. 2018. The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life's Game. Sourcebooks.

Derrick Levasseur, The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life's Game. Sourcebooks, 2018.

Derrick Levasseur. The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life's Game. Sourcebooks, 2018.

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     Derrick Levasseur is a retired police sergeant from Central Falls, Rhode Island. Before becoming a supervisor, he was assigned to the Investigative Division, where he spent three years as an undercover detective.

     Throughout the course of his career, he received multiple awards, including letters of recognition, unit citations, commendations, and the Medal of Valor.

     In addition to his advanced training with interviews and interrogations, Derrick has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in business management.

     Through his life experiences, both personal and professional, Derrick has developed an innovative approach to building stronger relationships and achieving personal goals. He used that same approach on the CBS hit series, Big Brother, and is now regarded as one of the greatest to have ever played.

     Derrick also starred in the Investigation Discovery hit docu-series, Is OJ Innocent?: The Missing Evidence and Breaking Homicide.

     If you want to know more about Derrick and his current projects, follow him on Twitter at @DerrickL, on Instagram at @DerrickVLevasseur, or you can visit his website at www.OfficialDerrick.com.

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In a televised social experiment before millions of viewers, police sergeant Derrick Levasseur demonstrated that techniques used by undercover detectives could help people achieve their goals in everyday social situations. The result: he walked away with more than half a million dollars.

In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity and working more than a decade in law enforcement, showing readers:

The power of observation and creating a profile

The effect of using silence to extract and evaluate information

The benefits of interpreting body language and developing your sixth sense

The importance of self-awareness and adapting to your environment

The value of developing a personal ops plan with a defined mission

Derrick's approach allows readers to create a solid foundation in their lives, build confidence personally and professionally, and push themselves to become stronger, more capable leaders.

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   • source: Nancy Grace, TV personality and founder of CrimeOnLine.com
   • content: "Derrick Levasseur first entered the world of crimefighting and now channels years on the street into his new "how-to" book on communicating more effectively, leading with confidence, and battling life's obstacles head-on! Incredible!"
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   • source: Jack Schafer, PhD, author of The Like Switch
   • content: "Derrick Levasseur walks the reader through his law enforcement career and highlights tips and techniques that can be used by everyday people to gain new insights into social and business encounters. His conversational writing style makes the book easy to read and understand."
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   • source: Jim Clemente, FBI Supervisory Special Agent/Profiler
   • content: "Levasseur gives readers an incredibly insightful way to identify and achieve their goals in The Undercover Edge. Not only is his writing style engaging and illuminating, it is fundamentally practical and easy to understand. So easy, everyone can apply his ideas in their everyday lives or business ventures. When I read it, I was amazed at how Levasseur instinctively developed skills it took me decades to learn and hone as an FBI Profiler. The Undercover Edge is pure GENIUS!"
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   • source: Mandy Hale, New York Times bestselling author of The Single Woman and Beautiful Uncertainty
   • content: "For anyone who, like me, watched Derrick deftly maneuver his way to the grand prize on Big Brother and asked in amazement, 'How did he do that?!' — This book is the answer. From visualization to knowing your target to developing your intuition, Derrick breaks down a clear, practical, effective strategy for achieving your own goals in life. As entertaining and clever as his Big Brother run, The Undercover Edge will inspire you, motivate you, and put you directly on the path to becoming the person you want to be."
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   • source: Kris Mohandie, PhD; clinical, police, and forensic psychologist
   • content: "Derrick has demystified and unraveled life secrets of practiced professionals with pragmatic and effective strategies that underlie successful investigations, interviews, work success, and personal relationships. The Undercover Edge is a must-read for anyone who wants to fully live their life and maximize their unlocked potential."
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   • source: Mark Moses, author of Make Big Happen and founding partner and CEO of Coaching International
   • content: "Derrick's adaptation of undercover techniques for business applications is innovative but practical. Whether you're an entry-level employee looking to build stronger relationships with clients and colleagues or a CEO seeking new ways to understand and communicate with your team, The Undercover Edge offers an approach that will assist you in leading more effectively and achieving your professional goals."
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   • content: "Levasseur's fresh and candid perspective makes for an empowering self-help guide.
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     October 2, 2017
     In this debut, Levasseur, a Rhode Island police sergeant, shares hard-won self-help tips, to sometimes gimmicky but generally entertaining effect. “Think of this book as a guided tour of the major lessons I learned as a street cop, a detective, and a supervisor,” he begins. The first step
     is being honest about your own strengths and weaknesses and those of others. He advises readers to “know your target”—the person on whom you wish to make an impression—such as by remembering his or her birthday. Body language is also key, he teaches. Continuing to indulge in the police-lingo theme a little too insistently, he points out the importance of “headquarters,” or having a happy home life. Leading with confidence is the subject of one of the most appealing lessons. Another of the best lessons is on creative visualization. One of the toughest lessons—one Levasseur learned firsthand after he fatally shot a suspect (and was subsequently cleared by a grand jury)—concerns growing through adversity. He wraps everything up with a succinct “debriefing.” Though the cop-talk conceit can seem hackneyed, Levasseur’s fresh and candid perspective makes for an empowering self-help guide. Agent: Steven Harris, CSG Literary.

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In The Undercover Edge, Derrick shares his personal mind-set surrounding human behavior and motivation. Even more than that, he provides easy yet groundbreaking tools acquired while overcoming personal adversity and working more than a decade in law enforcement, showing readers:

The power of observation and creating a profile

The effect of using silence to extract and evaluate information

The benefits of interpreting body language and developing your sixth sense

The importance of self-awareness and adapting to your environment

The value of developing a personal ops plan with a defined mission

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