The author, Irv Brandt is a veteran of the US Navy and a graduate of the University of West Florida. He served on the Atlanta Police Department, assigned to the ZONE 3 Precinct as a patrol officer and worked undercover vice and narcotics operations.
Irv Brandt was a member of the US Marshals Service for more than twenty years. His assignments included serving as a deputy marshal in the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., and the task force supervisor of the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) in Las Vegas, Nevada. After being promoted to the Investigative Operations Division, he served as a senior inspector at the International Investigative Branch, as a chief inspector at the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, and as the US Marshals Service country attaché at the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
In having conducted investigations in more than fifty countries on six continents, Irv Brandt has received numerous citations, including the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. He has been certified as an expert witness on international investigations and extraditions by the US District Court of Southern Florida. His investigations have been profiled on the television show America's Most Wanted, and he appeared in the National Geographic Channel series Breakout episode "Escape to Vegas". Irv Brandt has also been a panelist on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.