Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 32 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases. In this episode

we get to speak to retired FBI agent Brig Barker. Now Brig served in the FBI

for 20 years and as a combat veteran and as a highly respected

linguist with full fluency in Arabic and a professional working proficiency in

German during his Bureau career, Brig was frequently deployed

overseas to work on major counterterrorism matters.

From 1998, until his recent retirement, Brig was assigned to operational investigations in Nairobi, Kenya,

Campalo Uganda, Cairo, Egypt, London England, Freetown, Sarah Lyon, and Tunese, Tunisia, to name a few.

During his deployment to Sarah Lyon, he was tasked with officially opening the FBI Attache

office there and establishing liaison with

local leaders and diamond merchants to initiate the investigation into

allegations that profits from the cell of blood diamonds were being funneled to terrorist

organizations due to the gym's high value and portability.

Now as you all know I'm a big crime fiction and thriller reader and the entire time I am talking to

Brig and get that name Brig Barker it sounds like a character in a thriller book but the entire time I'm talking to him, I'm thinking in my mind, wow, this is just like a James Patterson novel, or he could be one of Lee Child's characters and one of his books

with Jack Reacher. During his career, Brig was dropped solo in countries and ask to establish a presence for the FBI in that country.

For those of you who love to write crime fiction and thrillers, I'm sure you're going to get a lot of

great ideas while listening to this interview. And that's a great segue into the

next thing I wanted to talk to you about. I was fortunate enough to be interviewed

for a business insider article titled, 11 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About being an FBI agent and one thing it gets right.

That came out this week on Business Insider.com.

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