How the hell does a New York City

Narcotics Prosecutor

become this writer

and write books like this

about the war on drugs?

I don't know.

Hold your book up bizarre so people can see what it is.

The surreal saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and Florida's kingpins that it captured.

I don't know. You know, if I just woke up here, you told me that 10 years ago, I wouldn't have

believed you or thought maybe I was kidnapped or something, But it's really just an adventure that I'm still feeling out. I loved being a prosecutor. I was doing that for about five years. It wasn't that I was disillusioned or anything, but wound up going on a bit of a new adventure in media, and that's how I wound up getting into the story.

You're only in your mid-30s. How does one become a New York City narcotics prosecutor?

So most people, so I started at the Manhattan DA's office, and most people, they are coming right out of law school.

So you can be in your mid-20s when you're starting that. Some people are older, but it really

depends how you come to it. So not everyone starts in the narcotics unit, and I didn't know

that that's where I was going to be either. It's actually sort of a smaller office that's loosely

connected to the Manhattan DA's office, the special narcotics prosecutor, sort of a little known office,

but it has jurisdiction over narcotics-related felonies throughout the whole city of New York,

so not just Manhattan, even though most of the people there are Manhattan prosecutors.

So you really get a window into the drug world, and it's not just drugs, but anything that's connected to it.

So obviously, you wind up

getting into guns identity theft all sorts of things that crime and cartels are involved in

so what sort of things were you seeing like day to day being a prosecutor it varied so obviously

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