FAQ 3
ATF: Bureau of Alcohol Firearms
Tobacco and Explosives
Tobacco and Explosives
In my novel Murder@Black Mesa Cafe, Michael Sean Doyle is a retired ATF agent.
During the Great Depression and the era of Prohibition, and thru WW 2 my grandfather was a revenue agent in the true sense. He worked with Elliot Ness. Not as dramatic as the movie or TV series. Yet, he was injured when the beer factory he was inspecting in Terre Haute Indiana blew up.
I can remember as a kid in Milwaukee WI watching the TV series starring Robert Flack. Grandpa Tom's favorite saying "That's not the way we did it." but he kept watching.
My grandfather was a classically trained intelligent graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, WW1 vet, an author, artist, who spoke French, Latin and Greek. He read all the classics. I sat in his vast library and read the adventures of the Three Musketeers, Natty Bumpo, Count of Monte Christo, Sherlock Holmes, and other classics (before required in high school) for fun.
