The Shadow
Playbook Series.
Three books on Corporate Safety & Security, Executive Protection and Event Security, written by Michael de Geus from nearly two decades of field experience in federal service and the private sector.
The Corporate Safety & Security Playbook
The foundational distinction between security and protection, reactive posture versus anticipatory doctrine, and how to install it across the modern enterprise. Covers the five categories of corporate threat, the convergence of cyber and physical risk, intelligence and decision discipline, and the chief security officer’s role in building a protection program that works. Drawn from twelve years as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent and six years running global private-sector protection.
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The Executive Protection Playbook
The complete methodology for close personal protection: the principal relationship, detail design, advance, motorcades, arrival and egress choreography, and the moments of greatest exposure. Written from U.S. Secret Service PPD training and a decade of private-sector principal protection.
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The Event Safety & Protection Playbook
Advance methodology, venue operations, crowd dynamics, command and coordination, and mass casualty planning. Nearly 200 pages of operational doctrine drawn from 500-plus events across four continents. Written for event producers, security directors, and anyone responsible for keeping a large gathering safe.
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Michael de Geus served as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, on multiple protection details including being assigned to the Presidential Protection Division protecting the President of the United States and other senior government officials. Following his federal service, he obtained multiple domestic & international patents in personal protection products as well as founded SHDW, LLC. (operating as "SHADOW") to bring the same standard of protection to the private sector.
His operational experience spans presidential protection, dignitary details, advance operations, and threat assessment across domestic and international environments. In the private sector, that experience has extended across the full range of high-consequence security environments: major multi-city music tours and large-scale stadium festivals, red carpet film and television premieres, Fortune 500 corporate conferences and board-level executive details, celebrity and athlete protection, and high-profile private events across four continents.
The Playbooks are his effort to democratize the knowledge that existed only inside the walls of the most elite protective operations in the world, and to give executives, security directors, and event professionals the same framework that governs how Shadow builds every program it runs.
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