Attanasio TonyTony is a former U.S. Marine and a retired NYPD Detective Sergeant who subsequently served ten years with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He served in Miami, New York, and while attached to the American Embassy in Miami and Rome, Italy, he erved as DEA's CIA liaison and liaised with various intelligence agencies from Europe and the Middle East. Tony has been declared an expert in International drug trafficking and organized crime by the N.Y. State Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court in Miami and the German (Bavaria) Supreme Court. Tony has a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice (Core concentration - counter terrorism strategies). In 1991, Tony attended the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Tony has served as an Adjunct professor at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, where he taught an undergraduate course in the discipline of terrorism. Currently, Tony is teaching at Palm Beach State College. The college is located in Lake Worth, Florida, where he teaches courses in Forensic Accounting, Organized Crime Investigations, Arabic/Muslim Culture, The Psychology of a Suicide Bomber, and a course that focuses on terrorist investigations and intelligence collection techniques. In 2004, the student body voted him adjunct professor of the year. In addition, Tony is a certified Florida Department of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Instructor and has taught at the Connecticut State Police Academy in Meriden, Connecticut. His first book, written with Howard Hellman, THE ORCHID MEMORANDUM, published in 2004, has received a five-star rating from readers. Read More Read Less