Feds, Cops and Civilians

September 16, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added three police authors, Mark Bouton (Federal Bureau of Investigation), Charles D. Hayes (Dallas Police Department) and Maggie Price (Oklahoma Police Department).

An FBI agent for 30 years, Mark Bouton worked in several large cities including New York and Washington DC. He arrested kidnappers, killers and bank robbers. Moreover, he played a key role in solving the Oklahoma City bombing. According to publishers weekly, his novel “Cracks in the Rainbow” involves the character “Rick Dover, driving to warn his partner of a lethal group, when Stretch's Bronco erupts in a fireball and plunges into a canyon. Stretch's wife tells Dover the group had a computer connection, so Dover takes Stretch's PC to investigate. Dover and his new partner Falcon find hidden FBI files on Stretch's computer. They uncover a plot that is more dangerous and widespread than either of them can believe. Unsure they can trust anyone, the two cops find the stakes rising with every new twist and turn. Before it is all over, gangbangers, cops, and Dover and Falcon collide in a furious free-for-all which none of them may survive.”

Charles D. Hayes is a lifelong learning advocate, a self-taught philosopher, and an author and publisher. At age 17, he dropped out of high school to join the U.S. Marines Corps. After four years of duty he became a police officer for the Dallas Police Department. Later he moved to Alaska, where he has worked for more than 20 years in the oil industry. In 1987 Hayes founded Autodidactic Press, committed to lifelong learning as the lifeblood of democracy and the key to living life to its fullest. His book science fiction novel “Portals in a Northern Sky” features a U.S. president that is set to reveal a new technology capable of showing the past in real time.

Maggie Price turned to crime at the age of twenty-two when she when to work for the Oklahoma Police Department and a civilian crime analyst. Her job as a crime analyst involved evaluating a suspect’s method of operation and developing profiles. During her career with the Oklahoma Police Department she worked a homicide task force, established procedures for evidence submission and worked undercover.

Drawing on her 12 years of law enforcement experience, Maggie wrote her debut novel, Prime Suspect. She has since written more than a dozen romantic suspense novels.

Police-Writers.com now lists 125 police officers and their 380 books in six categories.