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Originally Posted by gcouger
It is very difficult to write a book on Delf Bryce. His family and the community (Mt. View) he was raised in and sent his family back to for protection after a close call is very tight lipped to strangers normally and when it come to Delf they take extra precautions. No bibliographer is going to find out much from anyone about him.
The books I've read were rather hard on those that didn't cooperate with the writer and writer didn't take time or make much effort to understand the problems of a federal agent hunted by the enemies he had made and spent his life dealing with the worst society had to offer or what he thought he had to do to protect his family from them.
Nor did the writer look at the what that did to his family and their ambition to live up to his image and not being able to do it as they lacked his background and experience he had growing up in vastly different times.
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gcouger, you might be interested in the most recent book based on Delf Bryce's life, which is the first of a trilogy by Bryce expert and former LEO Mike Conti of the Massachusetts State Police.
The series is a novel, but is based on incidents from Bryce's life and Conti's familiarity with issues faced by LEOs who have used their weapons while apprehending criminals. The first book is "Jelly Bryce -- The Legend Begins," and is about Bryce's youth, entry into law enforcement (where he shot and killed an outlaw on his first day on the job), and career in the Oklahoma City Police Department prior to being recruited to the FBI.
Here's a link to a thread about the book from a few months ago in which Mike discussed some of his reasoning behind writing the book as a novel based on historical fact.
New Jelly Bryce Book!
I've corresponded with Mike, and learned that the second installment of the trilogy is complete and being edited, so I hope we'll see it in a few weeks or months from now. He will be continuing to peel away the layers of Mr. Bryce, just as someone who was getting to know him personally would have, and I'm told that this installment will examine more closely the personality and motivations of Mr. Bryce, compared to the picture of him from the first installment, which left Bryce something of a mystery.
By the way, Mike Conti is also a Forum member here.
Sorry for any thread drift, OP; Bryce's gun, gear, and tactics are discussed in his biographies and in Mike's book.