Terry Kirkpatrick

From the early days of his career to taking over the Nogales station Kirkpatrick gives us a blow-by-blow on life as a U.S. Customs agent.
These special agents are the deterrent that stands between the smuggled drugs, guns and human contraband arriving in America. The marauding street gangs and the more powerful cartels all operate just the other side of the street, a fence away in the Nogales neighborhoods in Arizona. To catch them to stop them at their own game takes careful planning, show more careful planning and a well-placed snitch.
Told in an amazing array of down and dirty street novellas Kirkpatrick leads us through the dangerous antics, the undercover work and sometimes humorous undertakings he and his fellow agents compiled in a twenty year life time of law enforcement.
Witness for yourself, through the entertaining grist the border stories that demonstrate how corruption is rampant on both sides, that almost everyone has a price they can be bought for and how much of a struggle it is to maintain law and order during the chaos in a border town.
An entertaining, true crime drama from the point of view of an agent, who has literally been there and done it and now, tells you all about the way it really is out there. show less

From the early days of his career to taking over the Nogales station Kirkpatrick gives us a blow-by-blow on life as a U.S. Customs agent.
These special agents are the deterrent that stands between the smuggled drugs, guns and human contraband arriving in America. The marauding street gangs and the more powerful cartels all operate just the other side of the street, a fence away in the Nogales neighborhoods in Arizona. To catch them to stop them at their own game takes careful planning, show more careful planning and a well-placed snitch.
Told in an amazing array of down and dirty street novellas Kirkpatrick leads us through the dangerous antics, the undercover work and sometimes humorous undertakings he and his fellow agents compiled in a twenty year life time of law enforcement.
Witness for yourself, through the entertaining grist the border stories that demonstrate how corruption is rampant on both sides, that almost everyone has a price they can be bought for and how much of a struggle it is to maintain law and order during the chaos in a border town.
An entertaining, true crime drama from the point of view of an agent, who has literally been there and done it and now, tells you all about the way it really is out there. show less

Pretty good book. Pretty realistic as to what the border patrol officer deal with on a daily basis.