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Jim Fitzgerald remains an active criminal profiler and forensic linguist, even after retiring with 20 years in the FBI, and 11 years before that as a police officer/ detective/sergeant. In Book I, The Coming of Age Years, he recounts his experiences from the mid-1950s to 1970s as a young man on his way to becoming an FBI profiler.