After a tour as a USMC infantry officer in Viet Nam,
Chicagoan Paul Lindsay returned to the States and immediately
entered the FBI, where he spent the next two decades. He's
written five novels based on his experiences as a federal
agent.
The first three books feature Mike Devlin, a Chicagoan
working as a "brick agent" (a street-level investigator) in
the Bureau's Detroit field office
(where Lindsay himself was stationed for many years). Lindsay
was something of a specialist in serial killer cases, and all
of the Devlin books pit Devlin against some sort of serial
killer. WITNESS TO THE TRUTH has Devlin and his partner
trying to track down a kidnapper who is holding a brother
agent's daughter captive; the kidnapper's MO is similar to
that of a serial killer Devlin tried to catach some months
earlier in another city. OPERATION GENTKILL has Devlin trying
to track down a killer who's stalking FBI agents. And my
favorite of the trilogy, FREEDOM TO KILL, features a villain
who uses modern-day technology to commit serial murders on a
massive scale, sort of a Unabomber on steroids.
Throughout the Devlin books, the hero rails against the
"bureaucratization" of the FBI, the back-stabbing
"careerism" of management-level agents, and an agency culture
that cares more about avoiding failure than actually solving
crimes. Devlin emerges as what one critic calls "an FBI
poster child for insubordination."
Lindsay has also written two non-series (so far) FBI novels,
THE FUHRER'S RESERVE and the upcoming TRAPS.
JIM DOHERTY
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