Here's the latest book everyone has been talking about, Officer In Trouble. My only non-fiction to date is written from my heart to share with you what cops go through - they aren't brave super-heroes, as much as they like the description. Cops are human, with all the frailties of any other person. We are just as affected by heartbreak, anger and frustration as anyone else. But cops are expected to move past all that. They are expected to be brave in the face of danger. To outfight the strongest opponent. To outshoot the best armed villains (and only wound them.) To be fair and unfazed by the wickedness foisted against them. And to be unmoved by the grief and gore and despair of the innocent and the guilty as well. But that is not the human experience. And cops are just as human as the rest of us.

I did not want this book to be just another accumulation of weird cop humor, nor of officious bravery against "the bad guys." I wanted you, the reader, to live the experience, to feel the fear, to hear your heart pound in your chest and to be morally challenged when facing the choices in these true events.

One of the things they teach you in the police academy is that all cops eventually get hurt. What they don’t tell you is that some of the wounds are invisible, and they just might last forever.

In a fast-paced and sometimes painful telling, Officer in Trouble plunges you into a world of societal grit, grime and crime that, just as it did to the author, erodes the innocence of our young defenders, while creating perhaps their greatest challenges.

Told from a stream of consciousness perspective, Officer In Trouble is a dark, non-fiction series of vignettes of police encounters from the author’s experiences on the Detroit Police Department.

As the author vividly describes his own life altering moments, each story immerses you further into the mind of the average police officer, where you feel their anxiety, their very real fear and learn what it takes to overcome it.

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With a Forward by Detroit Police Commander Charles (Chuck) Barbieri, (Ret.)