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    Trooper Down!: Life and Death on the Highway Patrol

    By Marie Bartlett and James J. Kilpatrick

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    About this ebook

    A police reporter offers an up-close look inside the daily lives of North Carolina’s state troopers.
     
    Like most law enforcement, their shifts can be filled with long stretches of tedium. They stay at the roadside, watching vehicles rush by, occasionally handing out a speeding ticket or pulling over a drunk driver. Then, suddenly, it can all turn dangerous, when someone pulls a weapon—or heartbreaking, when they are called to the scene of a wreck. This portrait of North Carolina’s elite Highway Patrol recounts both the drama and the day-to-day detail of these state troopers’ lives and work.
     
    In interviews and anecdotes, troopers relate stories of manhunts, narrow misses, breathtaking confrontations, strange and hilarious encounters with the public, and aiding the injured and dying in highway accidents, while troopers’ spouses—and widows—tell of the heart-wrenching realities trooper families face. It’s a fascinating look inside a little-known profession, and the lives of the men and women who watch over us as we travel along—preferably obeying traffic laws as we go.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9781616202385
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    Trooper Down!: Life and Death on the Highway Patrol
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    Marie Bartlett

    Marie Bartlett was born in Melbourne, Australia, but came to this country as a young child and was raised in western North Carolina. As a freelance writer, she has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and she has served as a correspondent for the Associated Press. She also writes crime fiction.

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