Agent Bishop: True Stories From An FBI Agent Moonlighting As a Mormon Bishop
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With over thirty years in the FBI as a special agent, Mike McPheters investigated everything from organized crime figures in South Florida to homicides on Indian reservations in the Northwest, while simultaneously serving four times as a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). In some instances, the stories are hilarious, like performing a marriage one day as a bishop and shortly thereafter, having to arrest another bridegroom and his best man. In other instances, the accounts are sobering, like the bloody shootout in a remote site in Northeast Oregon where two extortionists die and the author narrowly escapes death. The undercurrent theme throughout the book is centered in the concept that if people will strive to live their religion, they will be blessed with the opportunity to fully enjoy their life's work.

Agent Bishop will enable the reader to witness the author's initial FBI training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VIrginia, will accompany him during a personal interview in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, and will be with him when the author and his partner, The White Knight, are taking down the largest Cuban and Puerto Rican car rings in Florida. The book will offer the reader a bird's eye view of the attempts of Big Jimmy Capotorto and his henchmen to take over the marijuana and cocaine traffic in Southern Florida and some fascinating insights into a commune from Poona, India that re-established itself in the far reaches of Central Oregon under a bhagwan mystique, who convinces thousands of college-educated followers that he can lead them to heaven on earth, while he drives a different new Rolls Royce through his commune every day.

The reader will feel the palpable tension generated in the wake of a deadly extortion attempt in the mountains of Northeast Oregon, as the author saves a farmer from sure death from a drug traffficker out of Florida and then, two years later,  has to arrest him in Ketchikan, Alaska. Finally, the reader will follow Mike McPheters into the Indian reservations of Oregon and Utah, as he solves numerous homices, aggravated assaults and child molestation cases. Ultimately, the reader will track the author into his final assignment in the Los Angeles Division, where he is assigned to work international drug cartels out of Mexico.  The reader will feel the the emotion of the author's retirement and the satisfaction of his contributions in the relief effort of 9-11 in the nation's capital.

Throughout all the "war stories" with the Bureau, the reader will sense the immense appreciation Mike McPheters has for the protecting hand of the Lord and will appreciate his continuing struggle for balance in his life while trying to serve his four congregations and his family.