Author Information

Irv Brandt is a veteran of the US Navy and a graduate of the University of West Florida. He served on the Atlanta Police Department assigned to the Zone 3 Precinct as a patrol officer and worked undercover vice and narcotic operations.

Brandt was a member of the US Marshals Service for more than twenty years. His assignments included serving as a deputy marshal in the Superior Court of Washington, DC, and the task force supervisor of the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

After being promoted to the Investigative Operations Division, he served as a senior inspector at the International Investigations Branch, as chief inspector at the DOJ Office of International Affairs, and as the USMS country attaché at the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

Brandt has conducted investigations in more than fifty countries on six continents and has received numerous citations, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. His investigations have been profiled on the television show America’s Most Wanted, and he appeared in the National Geographic Channel series Breakout episode “Escape to Vegas.”