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Gary Edgington is a 30-year (sworn)
law enforcement veteran. Gary is
also the son of a law enforcement
officer who was murdered in the
line of duty in 1979. This tragic
event occurred while Gary was in
the third week of LA Sheriff’s
Academy training. Gary graduated
with his class and began his career
with the Manhattan Beach Police
Department. Gary went on to work
with the Beverly Hills Police
Department and the LA Co DA’s
office before being appointed a
Special Agent (SA) with the
California Department of
Justice-Bureau of Narcotic
Enforcement in 1994.
Throughout his career, Gary has
held assignments in uniformed
patrol, detectives, major
narcotics, internal affairs,
intelligence/organized crime,
government corruption and has
served as a firearms and tactics
instructor. As a California
Department of Justice (CA DOJ) SA
and later SA Supervisor, Gary
served from 1999 to 2008, as a
member of the Los Angeles FBI’s
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
After 9/11, he took command of a
multi-agency counter-terrorism task
force in Los Angeles for the CA
DOJ. This task force was co-located
within the LA-JTTF. In 2008, Gary
deployed to Iraq as an embedded
civilian anti-terrorism/organized
crime advisor working counter-IED
with the US Army. Gary also worked
as a terrorism subject matter
expert (SME) and analyst on the
Guantanamo terrorist detainee
cases. Later, Gary served as a
terrorism SME and intelligence
analyst with the Long Beach Police
Department’s Office of
Counterterrorism and later held a
staff assignment at US Special
Operations Command in Tampa, Fl.
Gary currently oversees
southeastern US security operations
for a multi-national corporation.
Gary has been honored by California
Attorney General, the US Attorney’s
Office and the FBI, for his
counterterrorism and government
corruption investigations. Gary has
published three magazine articles
for law enforcement and outdoor
publications, and his feature
script, the murder mystery “450
North Rexford,” was optioned by a
Hollywood production company. Gary
is married to TV executive Lisa
Kridos. The couple have two adult
children
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Baghdad Iraq, 2008.
Outside the Wire
vividly portrays the story of Rick
Sutherland, retired LAPD Detective
Lieutenant now serving in Iraq as
an embedded civilian
counter-terrorism advisor, and
Major Nancy Weaver, an Army doctor.
When Rick is wounded in a mortar
attack, he meets Nancy, and after a
few missteps a relationship
develops between them. Nonetheless,
they risk everything, including
their burgeoning romance, while
battling clandestine Iranian
operatives bent on the slaughter of
thousands of innocents, and
ultimately—the destruction of
America.
It’s a race against time
as Rick and Nancy become embroiled
in the fight to stop murderous
covert Iranian operatives and “turn
coat” US soldiers from exploding
multiple “dirty bombs” during a
critical meeting of US and foreign
Heads of State. The dirty bombs
would spread deadly radiation
throughout Baghdad and neighboring
Army bases, killing thousands and
rendering the area uninhabitable for
decades. Rick and Nancy survive
deadly firefights, enemy rocket
barrages, and frustrating encounters
with US Army bureaucracy in their
desperate struggle to save American
lives.
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