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Undercover Angeles, Garlic and Fort
Defiance
July 31, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added three police officers: Lisa Lockwood;
David Hunter; and, James W. Smith.
Lisa Lockwood is a former
Chicago Police Department police officer.
During her
law enforcement career she worked as a police
officer, undercover detective and
SWAT team member. She is also a former member
of the
United States Air Force.
Lisa Lockwood is the author of Undercover
Angel.
According to the book description, Lisa
Lockwood endured childhood poverty and an abusive marriage to become
a soldier in Desert Storm, a police officer, undercover narcotics detective and
the first female
SWAT team member. A former beauty pageant
contestant,
Lisa Lockwood had to suppress her obvious
femininity in order to conquer the "Boys Club" of
law enforcement, but her beguiling beauty would
become her best asset as an undercover narcotics detective. It was in the gritty
world of drug rings, Mafia members and child molesters that she rediscovered the
power of her femininity and learned to use her disarming sexuality as a
professional asset in ensnaring criminals.
David Hunter joined the
Knox County Sheriffs Office in 1979. He
attained the rank of sergeant and served on the force until his medical
retirement in 1993.
David Hunter is the author of fifteen books.
His fiction books are: Things to Do in Knoxville When You're Dead: And
Other Stories; The Jigsaw Man; Homicide Game; The Dancing Savior; A Whiff of
Garlic; and, A Sonnet for Shasta. His non-fiction books include:
The Moon is Always Full; Black Friday Coming Down; There Was Blood on the Snow;
The Night Is Mine; The Man with Turquoise Eyes and Other True Stories of a
Private Eye's Search for Missing Persons; Trailer Trash from Tennessee; The
Archangel Caper: Tales of a Country Cop; and, When Puppy Love Became a Howling
Dog.
On reader/review of The
Night is Mine wrote, Hunter's stories were humorous and knowledgeable.
I felt as if I was there. He truly wrote how it is in this novel. I read it
straight through because I truly enjoyed Hunter's tales.
James W. Smith, sometimes publishing under the
name
Jim Smith, worked as a
Memphis Police Department police officer for 8
years during the 1960s while earning a Bachelors Degree from the University of
Memphis. Although he left the full-time employment of the
Memphis Police Department for a career in
medical sales, he remained a reserve officer, serving an additional 17 years.
During his career with the
Memphis Police Department he was assigned the
Narcotics Squad, Vice Squad, Organized Crime Unit, and General Investigations.
After retiring from the
Memphis Police Department he was appointed a
Criminal Investigator with the District Attorneys Office in 1990, assigned to
Grand Jury investigations where he investigated fatal shootings by
law enforcement officers and misconduct by
police officers. He also served on an FBI Crime Task Force and was deputized as
a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal. He is the author of Operation Sorespot;
From the Internet with Love; and Fort Defiance.
According to the book description
of Fort Defiance, A routine murder investigation leads District
Attorney Investigator Jake Shannon neck deep into a life-and-death struggle. The
body of a young teenage boy is found dumped in City Park in Bartlett, Tennessee,
a suburb of Memphis. Jake is called in to assist in the investigation. He is
deeply shaken when he discovers the young boy is a close personal friend.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 686
police officers (representing 308 police
departments) and their 1478 books in six categories, there are also listings of
United States federal
law enforcement employees turned authors,
international police officers who have written books and civilian police
personnel who have written books.
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