What makes Paul Doyle's book different from other police memoirs is that it is suffused with compassion. The writing is hard and direct except where leavened with good humor and deep feeling for the unfortunate of the world. This is a book that should be handed to everyone everywhere in law enforcement or to anyone who wants to understand how men and women tin the profession can keep their heads above the dark waters of crime, addiction, corruption. Paul Doyle did and he did it with style and a great generous heart.

-Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and Tis

An extraordinary memoir from a former undercover Federal Narcotics Agent. The juxtaposition of Doyles case stories about the 1970s drug underworld with his happy family life is nothing short of thrilling. Theres a tension in this memoir that brings the murky morality of an undercover agent alive in a way that other true-crime accounts have not. The graphic tales of pimps and informants, dealers and mobsters remain a relentless reminder of a banal evil that most of us have seen (and not even all that accurately) on television; but with Doyle at the center of this memoir, each of us is there-tightrope-walking between good and evil, confronting violence from without and from within, and having to make spontaneous life of death decisions that seem light-years away from the beautiful wife and babies left at home.

-Anita Shreve, author of The Pilots Wife, Sea Glass, and The Weight of Water

Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent is a must read. Paul Doyle depicts perfectly what living the life is all about. Few men and women have what it takes to work undercover; fewer still are able to write about it. Doyles dramatic account of his experiences in the drug world is a sure hit. It is serious business.

-Joseph D. Pistone, retired FBI agent and author of Donnie Brasco