Lynn Walker

Brace yourself for Lynn Walker's unapologetic, laugh-out-loud journey of addiction recovery and bumbling through the wilderness of relationships in search of this thing called love. Even if you've never struggled with addiction (or love), you'll find hilarity and wisdom in this very human story of how we can use just about anything-food, sex, money-to try to change the way we feel. Read this candid and stubbornly hopeful memoir, but be prepared. If you're not careful, you just might catch a glimpse of yourself.

A Memoir

A Perfectly Good Fantasy

John Walker was a successful Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later he was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. In federal prison, he connected with a South American drug lord. Within months of being paroled, John began smuggling again-this time uncut Colombian cocaine. And this time, he put everything on the line: his freedom, his adult children and ultimately his life.A shocking, true story that reads like fiction. Breaking Midnight sheds light on the gritty underbelly of Miami drug trafficking and the danger of leading a double life-as an undercover agent or a smuggler.

A True Story

Breaking Midnight

Lynn Walker watched her dad, John, deteriorate from Miami undercover narcotics agent to drug smuggler, from protective father to monster—a very charming monster. By the time she was in high school, her dad was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. There, John made a connection with a powerful Colombian drug lord. Within months of being paroled, John waltzed back into his kids' lives, dishing out pure, Colombian cocaine to Lynn and launching her brother's coke-dealing career. After a few years of abusing coke together, Lynn lost everything and was forced to choose between her life and her father. Jaw-dropping, emotionally raw and heart-breaking, Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler’s Daughter is a story about family bonds, addiction and the price of holding on when it’s time to let go.

A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

Midnight Calling

John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. In prison, he connected with a South American drug lord who was still running the family operation from inside the federal pen. Within months of being paroled, John began smuggling again-this time uncut Colombian cocaine. And this time, he put everything on the line: his freedom, his family and, ultimately, his life.Breaking Midnight: A True Story shines a light on the gritty underbelly of Miami drug trafficking and the danger of leading a double life-as an undercover narc or a smuggler. Written by Lynn Walker based on interviews with her father, John, this is an uncensored, up-close-and-personal account of how a good cop goes bad.

Mel Walker

Rae B. Lake

Tiffany Carby

Laurie Treacy

K.B. Wheelock

Kathia Iblis

Michele Shriver

Judy Swinson

It's what we all hope for, but rarely get. Maybe life threw you one too many punches and you had given up hope, or maybe you let that one person get away. There are so many reasons why we give up on life and our relationships, accepting that this is all we will have. Never getting that promotion, or the person that you dream of, or maybe being able to live. For those found within these pages, they get that rare chance. A second chance at love, jobs or even life itself.

Second Chances

Lynn was the happy-go-lucky daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent. When she was eight, her dad snuck out of their house in the dark of night without so much as a glance back. She never understood what happened to him until she was in high school, and he was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. By then, Lynn was filling the emptiness he had left in her life with a massive drug and alcohol habit of her own. It was the perfect set-up for her to latch onto the only connection to her dad that remained once he was paroled from prison--cocaine.After a few years of abusing coke together, Lynn lost everything and everyone she cared about and was forced to choose between her life and her father. Only Lynn had no idea how she could walk away from her dad this time. Or if she would ever find her way back to him.Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter is a compelling, true story that reads like fiction: a bewildering childhood, Lynn's descent into her dad's drug smuggling world--full of endless, pure Colombian cocaine but never the love she craved--her attempts to escape the grip of drugs and alcohol, and her long journey to discover that some of her greatest strengths came from surviving the charm and the hell of her father.Astonishing, emotionally raw and, at times, brutal, Midnight Calling is a story about family bonds and the price of clinging to them, severing them and trying to repair them.

Lynn Walker

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