What's Life Without a Dream?

Gary Marting grew up living next door to an FBI agent who took the time to talk with him about his career, and a dream was born. In spite of his abusive father and graduating near the bottom of his high school class, Marting took advantage a serendipitous opportunity to enroll in Southern Illinois University and thrived there. With the Vietnam War looming, he participated in Air Force ROTC and served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam, Thailand, and Nevada. In 1971, he was sworn in as an FBI agent. Marting skillfully describes his often complicated and dangerous work with the bureau including his uncanny ability to locate and arrest federal fugitives and solve white collar crimes. His last case before retirement in1996 was interviewing White House staff for the Whitewater investigation. Marting wrote this book for the next generation of Martings, as well as other struggling kids with a dream.