The Man Behind the Badge
The badge is retired, but the stories live on.
When I was ten years old, a State Trooper took a few minutes to show a curious boy his patrol car.
He had no way of knowing that simple act of kindness would shape the course of a lifetime.
Years later, as a Marine looking across the Pacific Ocean, I remembered that encounter and knew I wanted to wear a badge of my own.
For twenty years as a police officer, I investigated murders, child abductions, rapes and organized crime.
Then twenty more years investigating insurance fraud, and countless lives interrupted by tragedy.
One Badge. Two Careers. Forty Years.
1963
The early years
Quantico, 1979
This is not a book about crime.
It is a book about people.
The Victims
The Families
The Officers
The moments that never leave you.
