Charles Hustmyre has been a law enforcement officer since 1981 and an ATF special agent since 1991. He is a recipient of ATF's Hostile Action Award and the Distinguished Service Medal for rescuing a wounded agent during a shootout. During his career he has been assigned to the New Orleans Police Department's Violent Offender Warrant Squad, the FBI Gang Task Force, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, and the ATF/NOPD Safe Home Task Force -- a specialized unit targeting violent crime in public housing.
He has written both fiction and nonfiction including the recently published true-crime Killer With A Badge (November 2004.) His writing has appeared in Gothic.Net; Law & Order; Tactical Response; Nefarious--Tales of Mystery; American Health & Fitness; Hustler; and Nightclub & Bar magazine.
Charles Hustmyre's email address is chuck3174@yahoo.com
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
