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Joe White is one of those natively competent people who always manage to be successful in any endeavor. He became interested in competitive pistol shooting, so he became a national champion. Interested in flying, he went to a top spot in the Border Patrol air operation. Immigration matters? Joe served as a District Director, a top field position, and as Assistant Regional Commissioner for Investigations for the Southeastern U.S. And, as he served with distinction in all of these varied positions, he also proved to be a keen observer; of the job, and of the people he worked with, the people he supervised, and the people who supervised him. Not surprisingly, he has proved to be a successful writer.

He describes the positions and the people as though he were explaining to an old acquaintance what he had done for a living. The result is an insight into a more or less normal bureaucracy. He is easy to read, often humorous, sometimes ribald. For a survivor of the same bureaucracy, it is a gold mine of memories, some good, some not so good, but all a huge pleasure to recall.

ROBERT W. BREWSTER, former Border Patrol Pilot, Investigator, Chief Patrol Agent, District Director, and Assistant Regional Commissioner, Border Patrol.

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