What's Life Without a Dream?: How I Overcame Abuse and Delinquency to Become an FBI Agent

“Gary Marting’s dream of becoming an FBI Agent drives this narrative of his determination to prove his worth to his abusive father, Harold, and himself. The abuse took a toll: Marting graduated from high school near the bottom of his class. Desperate to get away, he took advantage of a serendipitous opportunity to enroll in Southern Illinois University and thrived there. Sworn in as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, he served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam and, in 1971, became an F...