In one story, an officer in Oakland, CA died in the smoke and flames of a raging forest fire engulfing a residential neighborhood after a succession of trips to evacuate residents. In another story, a New York City police officer defused a deadly bomb in a Planned Parenthood office just seconds before it was timed to explode. Two Kansas Highway Patrol officers risked their lives to save fellow officers and citizens from death and/or serious injury on an ice-covered stretch of highway that caused multiple cars to lose traction at high speeds. In other stories, an Alaska State Trooper single-handedly captured five dangerous gunmen; a Las Vegas police officer faced down a gunman; an Arizona deputy sheriff rescued the injured victim of a plane crash, holding him in a harness under the rescue helicopter while it traveled a mile to a safe spot; and a Newark (New Jersey) detective nearly died from gunshot wounds caused by a domestic-violence perpetrator as the detective accompanied the victim back into her house after she reported a violent incident. These and other stories in this book show how officers daily place themselves in high-risk, life-threatening situations in service to the public. A 134-item bibliography