title: The Seekers : A Bounty Hunter's Story
author: Joshua Armstrong
description: A surprising admixture of run-and-gun thriller and spiritual meditation, this is the true story of America's most unorthodox (and successful) bail enforcement team. Unlike other bounty hunters, Armstrong's group isn't composed of trigger-happy tough guys. Instead, guided by a patchwork quilt of spiritual convictionsAand the notion that "if you treat a man like a man, he will respond in a manly way"Athe Seekers track down felons in a respectful and usually bloodless way. The method works: the group, based in New Jersey, has an 85% capture rateAhigher than that of any other law enforcement agency in the country. In this measured and thoughtful memoir, ArmstrongAwith the help of Bruno (The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer, etc.)Arecounts his personal and professional odysseys. Born to a working-class black family in 1957, in Elizabeth, N.J., Armstrong worked as an Alaska fisherman before apprenticing with an old-school bounty hunter (who repeatedly fumbled textbook captures) and, eventually, founding the Seekers. Like many in cutting-edge law enforcement, the Seekers are techno-fetishists, utilizing the most up-to-date equipment (including arcane nonlethal weapons) for surveillance and paramilitary tactics in "takedowns"; they also use the more old-fashioned tactic of infiltrating and bribing street people for information. Throughout, Armstrong writes of appealing to fugitives' "better nature" in order to reduce violent confrontations, and he describes dramatic scenes of capture. Incongruous or not, Armstrong's spiritual perspective comes across as nuanced and legitimate. But the spiritual side of this memoir does not detract from its excitement of the chase and ultimate capture,or from its evocation of the scars and dark places of post-industrial, drug-war America. (Aug.) <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Bounty Hunter
   
   
   
   
   
   
  by T.J. Land
  
   
   
   
   
  Copyright 2020 T.J. Land
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner
  whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief
  quotations in a book review.
  This is a work of fiction. All characters, places, and events are from the author’s imagination and
  should not be confused with fact. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or places is
  purely coincidental.
  
  Osiris Vanguard was a busy man.
  You didn’t become the most in-demand bounty hunter in the solar system by dicking around,
  after all. People liked to romanticise what Osiris did for a living but it was a job like any other,
  complete with deadlines, commitments, trains to catch, long boring calls with clients, and the
  occasional assassin waiting for him in his hotel room. You had to stay sharp. You had to deal with
  everything that came your way quickly and efficiency.
  That i