George Fong
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George Fong

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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I was born in San Francisco, California. My father was a Chinese immigrant who joined the US Navy, met my Japanese mother in Okinawa and brought her home to America. My father didn’t speak Japanese, my mother, not a lick of Chinese. English became the common language. And although there were parts of Asian traditions they held onto, I believe there was a strong effort on their part in becoming Americans. It wasn’t until later in my life that I realized their desire might have caused me to miss out on a great part of what formulated their personalities and as such, formulate mine. My father was a calm man, methodical and intelligent. My mother was a firecracker. What they shared in common – buried in their different personalities - was the lack of fear, more specifically, of failing. What they wanted, they committed to without looking back. I believe it is the trait that my three sisters and I inherited from them. It’s also one of the reasons why I chose a career in law enforcement. I found the need to write after my involvement in a high profile murder investigation and my life as a Special Agent with the FBI. The result is a debut novel entitled Fragmented and is loosely based on a kidnapping case of a ten-year-old girl I worked as a rookie agent in Bellingham, Washington. My journey started in 1983. After working full time during the day and going to school full time at night, I graduated from college with a degree in Accounting. That year, I got married and less than a month later, I was sworn in as a special agent with the FBI. After 4 months at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, I was assigned to the Seattle field office. I chased bank robbers, surveilled kidnapping and murder suspects, and participated in the week-long standoff with a neo-Nazi group known as The Order at Whidbey Island. But it was a case involving the kidnapping of a ten-year old girl in Bellingham, Washington that stuck with me. I was young in inexperienced, tossed into a life and death situation. As I watched the case unfold, I quickly learned the importance of every decision made and how they would change the course of a person’s life forever. I worked all types of investigations throughout my 27-year career but this case, I will never forget. After two years, I was transferred to the Los Angeles field office where I worked mostly international drug traffickers, organized crime, and violent gangs. Over an 11-year period, I went undercover, targeting large-scale drug operations, mob members and Asian gangs, leading to some of the largest drug seizures for the Los Angeles Division. In 1998, I was offered an opportunity to be a lead instructor on Organized Crime and Racketeering Investigations, Wiretaps and Informant Development at the FBI’s International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungary. I spent 16 days conducting recovery efforts at Ground Zero and Fresh Kills a week after 9/11 as part of the Sacramento Division’s Evidence Response Team. In 2002, I was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent, managing the Violent Crimes and Major Offenders squad in Sacramento, to include the undercover program and the forensic Evidence Response Team. I oversaw numerous investigations involving kidnapping, murder, sex trafficking and crimes against children. I was part of the team investigating the high profile murder of four victims by Cary Stayner in the Yosemite Valley. It was after this case when I started to think about the kidnapping in Bellingham, about all the other cases I worked and found the need to write. I knew I couldn’t write non-fiction, as the true events of a person’s tragedies are not mine to own. Fiction though gave me a way of expressing my thoughts, a form of therapy. It lead me to write Fragmented, due for release in January 2014. In 2007, I was promoted to the position of Unit Chief, overseeing the FBI's Violent Gang Program at FBI Headquarters in Washington DC. I got to travel extensively throughout the world, conferring with foreign government officials, setting up major crimes task forces and training on investigative techniques and strategies before retiring in 2010. In looking back at all the experiences I have witnessed, I can’t think of another journey I would have rather taken. It was a great ride.
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