Lou Valoze, a retired federal agent who currently serves as an instructor for law enforcement officers, spent the last two decades of his career working in an undercover capacity for high profile, complex investigations of home invasion crews, outlaw motorcycle organizations, organized crime groups and murder-for-hire schemes. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. Brian Whitney has been a prisoner advocate, a landscaper, and a homeless outreach worker. He has written or co-authored books and articles in numerous mass market publications, as well as had many television appearances. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

“Storefront Sting: An ATF Agent’s Life Undercover is a riveting, realistic, no-holds-barred look inside the little-known world of undercover police work, and what it takes to live and work in that unbelievably crazy environment. ATF Special Agent Lou Valoze personally led long-term ops that kept him in harm’s way for extended periods of time, years on end. While telling of these experiences, Lou also describes in detail how his heroic and lifesaving work came with a cost, nearly destroying his family and his life. A must read for anyone interested in true heroes and true crime!”—Steve Murphy, former DEA agent who the Netflix series Narcos was based on;

• Table of ContentsForeword by Javier PeñaIntroductionOne. Going UndercoverTwo. Colur TymeThree. Street TheaterFour. Stolen TeethFive. All for One GuySix. Statesboro BluesSeven. PeteyEight. Operation ThunderboltNine. The SpiderwebTen. Hiding in Plain SlightEleven. The TakedownTwelve. The RussiansThirteen. WaliFourteen. Operation PulaskiFifteen. The Deal RoomSixteen. The Big ShowSeventeen. Internal AffairsEighteen. False AccusationsIndex

Lou Valoze, a retired federal agent who currently serves as an instructor for law enforcement officers, spent the last two decades of his career working in an undercover capacity for high profile, complex investigations of home invasion crews, outlaw motorcycle organizations, organized crime groups and murder-for-hire schemes. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. Brian Whitney has been a prisoner advocate, a landscaper, and a homeless outreach worker. He has written or co-authored books and articles in numerous mass market publications, as well as had many television appearances. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

“Storefront Sting: An ATF Agent’s Life Undercover is a riveting, realistic, no-holds-barred look inside the little-known world of undercover police work, and what it takes to live and work in that unbelievably crazy environment. ATF Special Agent Lou Valoze personally led long-term ops that kept him in harm’s way for extended periods of time, years on end. While telling of these experiences, Lou also describes in detail how his heroic and lifesaving work came with a cost, nearly destroying his family and his life. A must read for anyone interested in true heroes and true crime!”—Steve Murphy, former DEA agent who the Netflix series Narcos was based on;

• Table of ContentsForeword by Javier PeñaIntroductionOne. Going UndercoverTwo. Colur TymeThree. Street TheaterFour. Stolen TeethFive. All for One GuySix. Statesboro BluesSeven. PeteyEight. Operation ThunderboltNine. The SpiderwebTen. Hiding in Plain SlightEleven. The TakedownTwelve. The RussiansThirteen. WaliFourteen. Operation PulaskiFifteen. The Deal RoomSixteen. The Big ShowSeventeen. Internal AffairsEighteen. False AccusationsIndex

Lou Valoze, a retired federal agent who currently serves as an instructor for law enforcement officers, spent the last two decades of his career working in an undercover capacity for high profile, complex investigations of home invasion crews, outlaw motorcycle organizations, organized crime groups and murder-for-hire schemes. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. Brian Whitney has been a prisoner advocate, a landscaper, and a homeless outreach worker. He has written or co-authored books and articles in numerous mass market publications, as well as had many television appearances. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

“Storefront Sting: An ATF Agent’s Life Undercover is a riveting, realistic, no-holds-barred look inside the little-known world of undercover police work, and what it takes to live and work in that unbelievably crazy environment. ATF Special Agent Lou Valoze personally led long-term ops that kept him in harm’s way for extended periods of time, years on end. While telling of these experiences, Lou also describes in detail how his heroic and lifesaving work came with a cost, nearly destroying his family and his life. A must read for anyone interested in true heroes and true crime!”—Steve Murphy, former DEA agent who the Netflix series Narcos was based on;

• Table of ContentsForeword by Javier PeñaIntroductionOne. Going UndercoverTwo. Colur TymeThree. Street TheaterFour. Stolen TeethFive. All for One GuySix. Statesboro BluesSeven. PeteyEight. Operation ThunderboltNine. The SpiderwebTen. Hiding in Plain SlightEleven. The TakedownTwelve. The RussiansThirteen. WaliFourteen. Operation PulaskiFifteen. The Deal RoomSixteen. The Big ShowSeventeen. Internal AffairsEighteen. False AccusationsIndex