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Bob Hamer spent twenty-six years as
a “street agent” for the FBI, many of those years in an undercover capacity. In assignments lasting anywhere from
a day to more than three years, he successfully posed as a drug dealer, contract killer, fence, pedophile, degenerate gambler,
weapons dealer, and white-collar criminal.
Bob worked undercover against such
diverse groups as La Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, Mexican Mafia, Russian Mafia, Asian organized crime groups, and Los
Angeles-based street gangs. His successful infiltration of NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) resulted in the
arrest of what one defendant called eight members of the “inner circle.”
He received numerous awards throughout
his career including the FBI Director’s Award for Distinguished Service, four United States Attorney Awards for Distinguished
Service, and numerous letters of commendation including one from then U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Now retired, he is a member of
the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada and has written for TV. He also worked as the technical advisor
for The Inside and Angela’s Eyes and has consulted for Law & Order: SVU and Sleeper Cell. He appeared as a guest
on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss his role in the NAMBLA investigation. A Marine Corps veteran and law school graduate,
he is married and has two children. Bob Hamer is the author of The Last Undercover: The True
Story of an FBI Agent’s Dangerous Dance with Evil.
According to the book description of
The Last Undercover: The True Story of an FBI Agent’s Dangerous Dance with Evil, “Bob
Hamer tells the story of his life as an undercover agent for the FBI posing as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile.
Looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Hamer describes the challenges he endured
as he stared the dark side of humanity in the face—never blinking. Most importantly he shares what he faced in his last
undercover assignment—and his hardest—infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
It is rare for an agent to serve undercover
long-term, but Hamer made a career out of a job that can completely consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through all of
this he found a way to remain true to his faith and put his family before his work.” Publisher’s Weekly said of The
Last Undercover: The True Story of an FBI Agent’s Dangerous Dance with Evil, “There have been many
books concerning FBI undercover agents on perilous assignments, but this one by a veteran FBI agent goes most of them one
better with his full-tilt voyages into the darkest fringes of society. After his training and recruitment into the criminal
netherworld, Hamer assumed several identities—such as drug dealer and contract killer—to penetrate the closed
societies of the Chinese, Russian and Iraqi mobs. However, Hamer’s controlled theatrics are most compelling as he infiltrates
the security-obsessed North American Man/Boy Love Association disguised as an aging pedophile, to crack the group and their
extensive international network. The sneak peek into that dank society of “chicken hawks” is illuminating in its
depiction of child sexual abuse. With his practiced lies and disciplined behavior, Hamer is a peerless undercover agent…this
book possesses power and conviction without being pretentious or pious.”
According to one reader of The
Last Undercover, “Bob Hamer
takes us on a journey into the places
that most of us like to pretend don't
exist. With a blend of cynicism, humor
and brutal honesty, Mr. Hamer details
for the reader dangers that any of our
families could experience on any given
day. Whereas many would turn away from
investigating individuals engaged in
such repulsive activities, Mr. Hamer
went above and beyond, gaining trust
and acceptance, in order to get a
tremendous series of Federal
convictions. The topic is not pretty,
but skillfully detailed. The reality
of Mr. Hamer's career in the FBI is
the stuff of movies. I highly
recommend this book to any fan of true
crime, police drama or American
history. This work should be required
reading for all criminal
investigators.”
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