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Stephen Bentley is a former police Detective Sergeant and barrister (trial attorney) from the UK. He is now a freelance writer and HuffPost UK blogger.

His memoir 'Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story' is a frank account of his undercover detective experiences during Operation Julie - an elite group of detectives who successfully investigated one of the world's largest drugs rings.

When he isn't writing, Stephen follows the (mis)fortunes of Liverpool Football Club from afar and relaxes on the beaches of the Philippines with his family where he now lives.
Stephen is currently working on a number of books including the fictional Steve Regan Undercover Cop Series.

He would like you to know that he will donate a portion of all book sales royalties to the James Bulger Memorial Trust, a UK registered charity.

You may find him on Twitter as @StephenBentley8
 

According to the book description of

Undercover: Operation Julie – The Inside Story, "In March 1978, at the culmination of Operation Julie, fifteen defendants, including doctors, research chemists, a writer, and "professional" drug dealers were sentenced to a combined total of one hundred and twenty-four years imprisonment.
 

Operation Julie is still today the point of reference for all British undercover operations and training. In 2011, the BBC claimed this massive and unique police operation was the start of the war on drugs.
 

The author, Stephen Bentley, was one of four undercover detectives engaged on Operation Julie, one of the world's largest drug busts. Together with his undercover partner, he infiltrated the gang producing around 90 percent of the world's LSD and uncovered a plot to import huge quantities of Bolivian cocaine into the UK.
 

The author operated in the era of no undercover training. He improvised as he went along. He was a pioneer infiltrator left to his own devices.
 

The underworld knew the author as Steve Jackson. How did he successfully infiltrate the two gangs? Did he have to take drugs, and how did 'living a lie' affect him?"
 

According to the book description of

Who The F*ck Am I? (Book 1 Steve Regan Undercover Cop), "Introducing Book 1 in the Steve Regan Undercover Cop Series of crime fiction novellas.  From author, Stephen Bentley, comes a fictional undercover cop, Steve Regan, following on the success of his true crime undercover police memoir 'Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story.'
 

In real life and while undercover, the author met a Mafia-connected gangster who involved Bentley, the undercover cop, in a conspiracy to import huge amounts of cocaine into the UK from Bolivia via Miami.
 

The gangster was reported to have been dealt with by the DEA and sentenced to a 25-year prison sentence. But was he? And was he all he was supposed to be?

This is where the author moves from fact (memoir) into fiction (this book). Reading this book gives you some insight into the shadowy world of drugs and undercover cops. The title is a nod to the identity confusion experienced by undercover infiltrators. It's a world many simply don't know about.
 

Steve Regan, undercover detective, is tempted by the riches of drug smuggling so he can be free of debt, police bureaucracy, and help a loved one. He wonders whether he can go 'rogue' and cross the line.
 

Regan gets involved in one deal with a Miami-based drug lord. But is everyone who they say they are? "

 

 According to the book description of

Dilemma (Book 2 Steve Regan Undercover Cop),  "Steve Regan is back and this time he’s alone and undercover in a seedy area of Thailand on the trail of a Texan expatriate, Les Watkins, the biggest drug smuggler in South East Asia.
 

Using himself as the bait, Regan attempts to score a $50,000 deal with the Thai mafia in an effort to get closer to his target.

As he finds himself embroiled deeper into the operation, Regan suspects Watkins may be connected to Regan's nemesis, ruthless Mafia boss Carlo Vitale, who has fled the United States following a triple bombing and assassination of three crime family heads.
 

Besides staying alive, Regan has other problems when he suddenly finds himself facing the worst dilemma an undercover cop can face.
 

Dilemma is an edgy, suspenseful tale with twists and turns plus a sprinkle of romance.

Though Book 2 in the Steve Regan Undercover Cop series of crime fiction novellas, it can be read as a standalone book. The author is a former undercover cop and penned the Amazon UK bestselling memoir 'Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story,' a unique British undercover police investigation.

 

If you like hard-boiled crime fiction, there is nothing earthier or more realistic than the Steve Regan series. Crime fiction about an undercover cop written by a former undercover cop! This is no ordinary police procedural.

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