Healy, Jim

Jim Healy is a 32-year FBI veteran who writes with verve and humor about his career of chasing spies and fugitives. Assigned from coast to coast, he pursued underground Communist spies in California, then directed the famed Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program from J. Edgar Hoover's headquarters in Washington, D.C. In addition to placing numerous murderers, kidnappers, and bank robbers on the "Top Ten" list, he takes credit, as a believer in gender equality, in adding the first woman to the list. Returning to field operations, he led the search for five desperate escapees from the "escape proof"