— Glenn McGovern joined the Air Force fresh out of high school and was plunged into a world of threats and intrigue.
Assigned to protect U.S. bases worldwide, he studied the tactics of Germany's Red Army Faction, the attack style favored by Hezbollah and the IRA's pattern of bombings.
He became enamored of the "Art of War," an ancient Chinese military treatise that counsels to know thyself, know thy enemy.
But it was after a civilian policing career, when McGovern joined the Santa Clara County district attorney's office as an investigator, that he found his passion — one that would turn him into an expert on attacks against law enforcement.
The whiskey enthusiast with Irish roots was part of a group charged with keeping prosecutors, as well as victims and witnesses, safe.
"I started looking, and there was just no training available," said McGovern, 44. "So I just started researching. I needed to know what we were up against."
McGovern, who by that time had earned a bachelor's degree, dug deep into threats against prosecutors, cops, judges and other officials worldwide.
He broke down the style, timing and location of attacks and studied the motivation behind them. His two books and more than a dozen papers have analyzed killings by the Sicilian Mafia, the use of motorcycle hit teams and more.
Now, in the wake of brazen slayings of a Colorado state prison official and two Texas county prosecutors, McGovern's most recent project has thrust him into the national spotlight.
That research analyzes 133 hits and plots to kill members of the U.S. law enforcement community from 1950 through 2012.
"I wanted to make something available to the people who are targeted and the people who do the protective work," said McGovern, who has led the Santa Clara County D.A.'s protection team for a decade.
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McGovern's father, grandfather and great-grandfather all served in the military. After graduating from Irvine's Woodbridge High School, he followed suit.
As a member of the Air Force Security Forces, McGovern spent a lot of time answering domestic-dispute calls on base, with subjects sometimes turning to him for marital advice. "I was, like, 'Dude … I'm 18!' "
But the assignment tapped into McGovern's interest in history. He got hooked on the complexities of geopolitical treachery. He traveled through Europe and Panama, honing his knowledge of threat assessment.
Later, he worked as a jail deputy for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, learning to "control a pod of 118 guys by sheer demeanor … and by treating them with respect."
He moved to Pacific Grove in 1995 and served on the Police Department's SWAT team. He loved listening to the mournful sounds of the Pebble Beach bagpipers at sunset and watching the first traces of dawn mark the ocean as he sat in his cruiser writing reports.
Back on patrol five years later, McGovern sought a new challenge.
It was October when "a sergeant came up upon me and said: 'I think the pumpkin smashers are out. We need to get them,'" McGovern recalled. He applied for the Santa Clara County D.A.'s job the following day.
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