Miranda Writes, Honor & Justice

"As told by a deep undercover investigator, this is a gripping story of challenges, frustrations, anger and redemption." -Jonathan Z. FriedmanSecond Deputy District Attorney (Ret.), Chief, Investigation Division, Westchester County, New York"Rarely do you see a true 'first person' account of life as an undercover Detective told so openly and honest. Written in the detective's voice, this book takes you behind the scenes of a major case investigation revealing the dangerous choices made and the personal sacrifices needed!"-Sal Lifrieri, Detective 1st Grade, NYPD (retired), Director of Security and Intelligence Operations-NYC OEM (retired)"Suspenseful! Intriguing! Miranda Writes/Honor and Justice is a must read book. It's a true insight into the physical and emotional world of an undercover cop risking everything that he holds dear in life for family honor." -Richard Santorsola, Special Investigator (Retired law enforcement officer), New York State Organized Crime Task ForceAfter working for a number of years in patrol with the City of White Plains, New York Police Department, I was promoted to detective and assigned to the Westchester County District Attorney's Office Organized Crime Squad. It seemed that I had an affinity for undercover work and soon found myself working deep cover. I had successfully infiltrated the Lucchese crime family, gathering evidence in an international heroin-smuggling case. I had infiltrated a crew that smuggled large quantities of pure heroin from the Middle East into the New York metropolitan area. I soon found myself making choices that were uncomfortable, and struggling inwardly to hold on to the values that I'd been taught.The following story is fact-based fiction. It's my version, true to my recollection, of events that occurred while I was assigned to work with a federal informant, Mike Baraka, who claimed that he was falsely arrested, indicted, and convicted for a crime he didn't commit. It's a story about family honor, a tabooed friendship, and a surgical look into the very essence of the criminal justice system.