Undercover Angels, Garlic and Fort Defiance

Editor's Note: One of the authors is former USAF.

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 Sheriff’s 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 1960’s while earning a Bachelor’s 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 Attorney’s 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.