Fishers of Men: A Law Enforcement Memoir

Chase burglars, thieves and common drunks through the streets of Phoenix follow the brushed-out tracks of illegal entrants at night along the snake-infested banks of the Colorado River stand at both our nation s borders and two major airports screening those who come and go and do it not through the imagination of a writer but with the man who lived it all. Terry Tanner served thirty-six years with the Phoenix Police, US Border Patrol and US Customs gaining insight from each job and retired with a deep respect for the law enforcement men and women he worked with and for their various agencies and missions. Fishers of Men is the insightful, ironic and amusing story of his career.

Though his life s work bore little resemblance to the episodic violence portrayed on TV, it was a happy career filled with oddities and diversions and not without its heart quickening episodes. Like all true stories, it carries scenes of sadness as well, and the author recounts those with the same honest voice and lack of sentimentality that is a hallmark of the book. The chance to immerse one s self in unfamiliar surroundings to expand understanding beyond personal experience has always been the purpose of well written memoir and when the reader closes this book, he ll feel he s served time on the streets of a big city, in forbidding desert landscapes and at airports and border stations on the nation s northern and southern frontiers.

Fishers of Men will appeal to that part of the reading public anxious to have an inside look at law enforcement and will prove a satisfying read for current and former officers, as well.