Holding the Line — Michael Cunningham

Back when Thomas Cheshire was an aspiring baseball player, he met Bob Edwards, a fire captain who taught him the ropes of minor league baseball. Later Captain Edwards took Thomas under his wing again, mentoring Thomas toward a life as a firefighter. Injury and tragedy befall Thomas and he soon finds himself up to his neck in dead bodies and he is thrust into a world of drug traffickers. The second half of the book follows the author as he navigated his career as a firefighter, paramedic and a fire investigator. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic but never dull.