Rodney C. (PaladinII) reviewed on 8/27/2024 + 18 more book reviews

So far this is the only book that tells about an elite unit of the Border Patrol called BORSTAR that I have found. BORSTAR is an acronym for Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue and is a unit of the Border Patrol dedicated to providing search and rescue along with emergency medical care to people in need whether the person is an illegal immigrant, border patrol officer, or just citizen living in the area the unit is assigned. I have read previous books on the Border Patrol due to my interest in tracking and sign cutting. I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone interested in law enforcement history but could only give it three stars due to what it is missing rather than it being a bad book. I would have like more details of tracking and what Border Patrol agents do each day in their job defending the US Border. And then the section detailing the author's time in BORSTAR and in the Border Patrol SOG was short. The author did provide an interesting summary of the illegal immigration problem but he described it once then later devoted another whole chapter to talking about it again. I did enjoy the fact that the author did not write an âI am the greatestâ book because he described the good things and the bad things that happened to him during his Border Patrol career. Examples are the difficulties he had with Spanish lessons and then when it looked like he was going to write how he was a hero during an incident at a river he told the truth about the actual event rather than exaggerating the story. Again I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in law enforcement history but I wanted more stories/details.

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