Reviews
Confessions of an Undercover Agent is one of those real-life books you just cant put down. It is factual yet exciting. It defines all the principles of undercover work and highlights the dangers faced by our brave men and women who perform undercover duties every day. Confessions of an Undercover Agent will put the reader into the very mindset of an undercover officer. If you have never worked undercover, your heart rate will increase and your blood pressure will rise by reading and imagining being in these situations. For those who have performed undercover work, you will relive and remember your own stories with excitement as you read this excellent book. It will be mandatory reading for all future undercover class students at the Department of Defenses Regional Counterdrug Training Academy.Tim Rutledge, director of training at the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA), Naval Air Station, Meridian, Mississippi, Confessions of an Undercover Agent is a dynamic, compelling, hilarious memoir by a talented new writer. Charlie Spillers tells fascinating adventure stories unequalled in any other modern memoir Ive read. To me, the most telling words on the books cover appear within its subtitle, the toll of a double life.Spillers delivers with brilliant but painful introspection what living a double life of adventurous deception does to your own character. He shows us how the endless adrenaline rushes of risking your lifeand that of your familychange you.John Hailman, author of From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi and Return to Guntown: Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country, "Charlie Spillers is a natural-born storyteller with one hell of a story to tell. This is the real lowdown on southern crime from a man who saw it from the inside. After reading the book, I don't know if Spillers was brave or just plain crazy. But I loved it. A great read." --Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Forsaken and The Redeemers, " Confessions of an Undercover Agent is one of those real-life books you just can't put down. It is factual yet exciting. It defines all the principles of undercover work and highlights the dangers faced by our brave men and women who perform undercover duties every day. Confessions of an Undercover Agent will put the reader into the very mindset of an undercover officer. If you have never worked undercover, your heart rate will increase and your blood pressure will rise by reading and imagining being in these situations. For those who have performed undercover work, you will relive and remember your own stories with excitement as you read this excellent book. It will be mandatory reading for all future undercover class students at the Department of Defense's Regional Counterdrug Training Academy." --Tim Rutledge, director of training at the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA), Naval Air Station, Meridian, Mississippi, Confessions of an Undercover Agent stands on the authors skill as an observer, his remarkable memory, and his ear for the conversation of criminals, told in long scenes with plenty of colorful dialogue. In a time when the police are getting a bad rap, hes the kind of guy you want on the side of the law. May his exploits live on in the canon of great Mississippi true-crime literature.Jamie Kornegay, owner of Greenwoods Turnrow Book Co. and author of the acclaimed novel Soil ; from his review in The Clarion-Ledger , April 3, 2016, Charlie Spillers is a natural-born storyteller with one hell of a story to tell. This is the real lowdown on southern crime from a man who saw it from the inside. After reading the book, I dont know if Spillers was brave or just plain crazy. But I loved it. A great read.Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Forsaken and The Redeemers, " Confessions of an Undercover Agent is a dynamic, compelling, hilarious memoir by a talented new writer. Charlie Spillers tells fascinating adventure stories unequalled in any other modern memoir I've read. To me, the most telling words on the book's cover appear within its subtitle, 'the toll of a double life.' Spillers delivers with brilliant but painful introspection what living a double life of adventurous deception does to your own character. He shows us how the endless adrenaline rushes of risking your life--and that of your family--change you." --John Hailman, author of From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi and Return to Guntown: Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country, " Confessions of an Undercover Agent stands on the author's skill as an observer, his remarkable memory, and his ear for the conversation of criminals, told in long scenes with plenty of colorful dialogue. In a time when the police are getting a bad rap, he's the kind of guy you want on the side of the law. May his exploits live on in the canon of great Mississippi true-crime literature." --Jamie Kornegay, owner of Greenwood's Turnrow Book Co. and author of the acclaimed novel Soil ; from his review in The Clarion-Ledger , April 3, 2016, Confessions of an Undercover Agent stands on the author's skill as an observer, his remarkable memory, and his ear for the conversation of criminals, told in long scenes with plenty of colorful dialogue. In a time when the police are getting a bad rap, he's the kind of guy you want on the side of the law. May his exploits live on in the canon of great Mississippi true-crime literature.
