BJ Bourg

BJ Bourg is a former professional boxer and a lifelong martial artist who hails from the swamps of Louisiana. A thirty-year veteran of law enforcement, he has worked as a patrol cop, a detective, a detective sergeant, a police academy instructor, and the chief investigator for a district attorney’s office. He has successfully investigated all types of felony cases and has trained hundreds of law enforcement officers in self-defense, firearms, criminal operations, and many other areas. He retired in October of 2020 and is now a fulltime writer. Throughout his career, BJ has served on many specialized units such as SWAT, Honor Guard, the Explosives Search Team, and the Homicide Response Team. He founded his agency’s sniper program and served as its leader and instructor for nearly a decade. A graduate of seven basic and advanced sniper schools, he deployed as the primary sniper on dozens of call-outs, including barricaded subjects, hostage rescue operations, and fugitive apprehensions. He also served as the sniper instructor for the 2001 L.T.P.O.A. Conference. BJ has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Shooter at an FBI Sniper School, the Distinguished Service Medal, and Certificates of Commendation for his work as a homicide detective. In addition to authoring more than forty novels, he has also written dozens of articles for law enforcement magazines, covering a wide range of topics such as defensive tactics, sniper deployment, suspect interrogation, report writing, and more. Above all else, he is a father, husband, and pépère, and the highlight of his life is spending time with his beautiful wife, wonderful children, adorable grandchildren, and German shepherds. BJ is originally from Galliano, Louisiana, and he lived most of his life in the Mathews area. He now proudly calls Tellico Plains, Tennessee his home.