Glenn Topping was a young kid growing up in Queens, NY, with two parents and two sisters. His life evolved into him becoming a military police veteran sergeant and decorated deputy sheriff sergeant in South Florida. This book chronicles his life growing up and dealing with the good and bad. Life-and-death situations that changed his life forever dealing with the loss of family, friends, colleagues, and coworkers, many to gun violence, and ending with a loving family. Glenn’s first novel is called The Hurt. It follows Glenn’s story dealing with the drive-by shooting homicide of a friend from a club they worked at in South Florida in the early ’80s. Available online at Barns and Noble, Amazon, Xlibris.com, Kindle, and Nook. I want to also thank my wife of twenty-five years for putting up with me being in front of the computer screen for many days. My life was just a very long uninterrupted chapter.