For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as
fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original
memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day
job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a
career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the academy to
retirement, with exciting and engaging anecdotes about SWAT teams,
counterterrorism activities, and undercover assignments. At the same
time, it challenges the stereotype of FBI agents as arrogant,
case-stealing, suit-wearing stiffs by portraying the real people who
carry badges and guns. With honest, self-deprecating humor, Steve
Moore's narrative details his successes and his mistakes, the trauma the
job inflicted on his marriage, his triumph over the aggressive cancer
that took him out of the field for a year, and his return to the Bureau
with renewed vigor and dedication to take on some of the most thrilling
assignments of his career.