About Thomas Grimes

I am a lifelong resident of New York, a United States Air Force Veteran,  Retired Second Grade Detective from the New York City Police Department, Father of two adult Sons and Grandfather to one sweet little baby girl. 

For 20 years I had front row seats to the 

GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!

(And survived to write about it)

From NYPD assignments as a Beat Cop at "The Alamo"   New York's 46th Police Precinct, ("The Most Dangerous Square Mile in America") a Detectives Gold Shield at Bronx Narcotics, a tranfer to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and ultimately to the first of it's kind, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement StrikeForce. 

The COVID Pandemic of 2020 provided me with the time and inclination to put it all on paper. 

Book One -  'Charlie-Ida'  (Confidential Informant)

Book Two -  (It's prequel)  'On The Job' 

Book Three - (It's sequel) 'Omega One' 

These stories are fictionalized versions of what we did, what we should have done, could have done and would have done, if we had the backing of the City, State and the Federal Governments  (and the finances) to combat criminal organizations full force! 

Each book follows New York City Police Detective 

Jack Egan, his partners, his teamates, the embedded reporters, the targets of their investigations and the bureaucracy and politics associated with Law Enforcement in the United States. 

I am also the founder

 of NY Finest Speakers,  "A Law Enforcement Public Speakers Bureau" (since 2007) presenting on "Internet Awareness",  "Drug Awareness" and Personal Safety. 

Find us at www.nyfinestspeakers.com

We have appeard multiple times on both Local and National News!