James Moore (1935 - )

Genre: General Fiction, Non-Fiction

James Moore was born in Philadelphia, moved to Fort Kent at age 12, graduated from the University of Maine (Orono) in 1956, and lives now in Brunswick with his wife and three children. After serving with the U.S. Army in Korea, he joined the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in 1960, working there for 25 years, "tracking gunmen and gunrunners, Klansmen and neo-Nazis, hired killers and Mafia assassins." Moore also worked for a couple of years with INTERPOL, handling international murder, rape, and robbery investigations. He retired in Portland as the ATF agent in charge for Maine and New Hampshire. There's an interview with Moore available on line.

From his association with ATF came his 1997 book, Very Special Agents, a history of ATF. Available online are spirited reviews of Special Agents by Amazon readers. Moore has also written a suspense thriller, Official Secrets (1996), involving IRA gun smuggling and Maine; a review of Official Secrets is the second one on this linked page. His much-discussed novel Human Sacrifice (2002) explores the death of Sarah Cherry and the investigation into her death. Sarah was 12 when she vanished from her home in Bowdoinham, Maine, in 1988. The second edition of Human Sacrifice (2006) includes updated information.


Last Update: 06/04/2007

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