Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Agent Bishop

Read a great book the other day.  It is called Agent Bishop by Mike McPheters.  He was an FBI agent for over 30 years and a bishop four times during that time.  It is a compilation of stories from his career and so interesting!  He talks of family life and trying to find balance but most of the book is spent in telling the stories of his different experiences during those thirty years from drug busting, to solving murders on the Indian Reservations in Oregon, to ending the standoffs with cults.   The book was enjoyable and so very interesting by seeing the inner workings of FBI.   He throws in a zinger at the end of being in Washington DC on Sept. 11 2001 by the White House....well I will let you read it to find out what happened.  You will enjoy it if you like real life adventure, even if you don't you will enjoy it.

I also started his 2nd book about the Mexican Drug Cartels but I didn't finish it as it was too graphic for me especially since we are living in Arizona part time.  It is a very hard book to read not that it is not written well but that there is that kind of violence and secret combinations going on right here, right now in our own country.  Heidi told us that there is a park up in the mountains that is closed now to the public because it is too dangerous for anyone to go to because of all the drug and human trafficking going on up there.  He talks about that in his book,  how we are now allowing the drug cartels to take a little piece of America away from us and how we need to stop it before it is too late.  Very interesting but I couldn't finish it as it was too intense.  But do read "Agent Bishop" it was great!

1 comment:

Heather said...

I would love to read this. I'll have to see if our library carries it.