
Waffle House Diaries
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- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreBiography & Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Pub date2012-06-12
- Pages346
- SubgenreTrue Crime
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This memoir depicts the Waffle House as a microcosm of humanity where Gandhi would not be out of place meeting the twelve disciples and hookers and addicts sit in booths next to agents of the Department of Justice. It shows a world where coffee is the beverage of communion, good and evil become blurred, and real life never mirrors exploits in the movies. Looking back on his journey for justice in an unjust world, Smith recalls various events in his career not as heroic adventures but as daily procedures where he does what he can with his limited resources and intelligences. Ultimately he finds storytelling, not a gun, to be the most effective weapon to confront the dark.
Review: "Waffle House Diaries" . . . recalls a 30-year career in enforcing federal drug laws--the good, the bad and the ugly as he calls it--of working for the Department of Justice. In the book, Smith recounts one occasion while on surveillance to arrest a group of smugglers offloading marijuana in the middle of a river and finds himself instead helping to rescue two men from a helicopter which had crashed into the river in the midst of heavy fog. When he is injured in a car crash, he soon finds that doctors in Berkeley refused to treat "pigs." And on three different occasions he was forced to draw his gun to protect himself and those around him. --Severo Avila, The Rome News Tribune
Author: Wayne Smith
Publisher: Bluehotel Press
Published: 06/12/2012
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780615610542
About the Author
Wayne Smith grew up in Lindale, Georgia, graduated from the University of Georgia, and spent a thirty-year career with what is now the Drug Enforcement Administration, generally known as DEA. He served in the Atlanta District office, then at the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), before transferring to open an office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he retired in 1999. During those thirty years he was on temporary assignments in San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Columbia, and Bolivia.
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