Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper

Typical cop stories or blood and guts? … No way! Bryan Gregory takes the reader much further than that in Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper. Feelings are seldom expressed or addressed publicly by the law enforcement community, but with a refreshing and easy-to-read prose, he takes his audience on an emotional roller coaster of his career encounters that is seldom seen.

Although he includes a gracious plenty of comical episodes enhanced by cartoonist Levi Powell (also a retired North Carolina State Highway Patrol member), Gregory pulls no punches with himself or with others. Without hesitation, he admits his weaknesses. Without malice, he shows us ours too. He speaks to issues that we’ve become complacent with and largely ignored. From experience and the refuge of retirement he can do that. He can be straight forward. He can be daring. He does, and in Ole Man on the Porch … He is.