Product Description
by Joe Lozano (Illustrator), Lj Alvarez (Author)
How many dirty FBI Agents do you know?When LAPD Detective, and former Army Ranger, Steve Hudson uncovers not only a silent terror cell but a radical Islamic mole inside the FBI, a counter-terrorism investigation becomes a counter-terrorism, espionage, and treason investigation. Homegrown is set against a backdrop of current national and international events played out on the streets of urban America.The threats are real.... HOMEGROWN is inspired by true events which have been fictionalized to protect the innocent, with an insider's view of modern police operations and counter terrorism investigations.
Author Biography
Larry Alvarez is a police detective supervisor (ret.) with the Los Angeles Police Department. He has worked patrol, gangs, vice, counter terrorism, organized crime, intelligence, undercover, night watch detectives, surveillance, officer-involved-shootings, internal affairs, and a host of other investigative assignments. Detective Alvarez holds a Juris Doctorate degree, a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice, and a Bachelor's Degree in Criminology. He is a criminal justice professor, and has been published in the Counter Terrorism Journal and the F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. This is his first novel.