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A YEAR BEHIND
THE LEASH
A Year Behind The Leash is a true story about the long road from trauma to purpose. It begins with the accident that changed everything. A violent on-duty crash that left the author physically injured and mentally unmoored. PTSD crept into every corner of his life. Instead of fading into the background, he stepped into an even harsher world. There, with a working dog at his side, he rediscovered mission, structure, and the will to keep going. The book brings you into the daily reality of K-9 operations and the bond between a handler and the dog he trusts with his life. His journey continues where the stakes rise, losses hit harder, and one near-fatal moment forces him to confront the end of his K-9 career.
But the story doesn’t end there. It shifts toward healing, education, and a completely new profession where he channels everything he’s lived through into protecting others and seeking justice. This isn’t a polished, heroic tale. It’s raw, honest, and full of the kind of truth people carry quietly for years. If you’ve ever wondered what resilience really looks like, this book shows it without filters or shortcuts.
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the ride -along
what you learn
The Ride-Along: What You Learn is an intimate, unsensational look at what police work actually demands—far beyond what television or headlines ever show.
Told through a single Sunday morning ride-along, Jon T. Harris invites the reader into the passenger seat of a patrol car, where experience matters more than bravado and judgment carries real consequences. As a seasoned officer takes his brother-in-law along for a shift, routine calls, traffic stops, and a sudden pursuit become lessons in restraint, awareness, and responsibility.
This is not a story about heroics or action for its own sake. It is about the quiet, often unseen decisions that define real law enforcement—the moments where training, instinct, and character intersect. Drawing on decades of service in local policing and the military, Harris writes with the clarity and understatement of someone who has lived the work rather than performed it.
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The Graveyard Shift
Most people never see what happens on a lonely highway after dark. They don’t know what a graveyard shift actually looks like—the long stretches of radar work, the sudden violence, the split-second decisions that can change everything. They don’t understand the weight of it or the cost.
The Graveyard Shift takes you into a lone patrol car during the hours when most people are asleep. Officer Jon Harris has spent years working these shifts, running K9 with his partner Buddy, making traffic stops that could go anywhere, responding to calls that demand everything he has. This book follows Jon through real incidents on the highway. It’s procedurally accurate, unflinching, and honest about what law enforcement actually does when the sun goes down.
But this is also a story about the people waiting at home. Katherine, Jon’s wife, who worries every night he’s on the road. The training and discipline required to do the job right. The humanity behind the badge. Through one shift after another—and sometimes their aftermath—The Graveyard Shift reveals the reality of police work. Not the dramatization, but what the job actually is.