A former agent himself, Merle Temple has become an author of the gripping undercover drug novel, Ghostly Shade of Pale. Using his own experience undercover in the 60’s as foundation, Temple discusses his novel and it’s main character Michael Parker, the anti-war movement, and the drug war. From the KKK partnership with the feds in the drug war, to the pitfalls that proved hazardous to undercover agents, to the failures of the struggle, Media Mayhem gets deeper into the story.

Merle Temple, a native of Tupelo, MS. received a BPA and a Master’s of Criminal Justice at Ole Miss. The first Captain in the MS. Bureau of Narcotics in the 1970s, he was Class President of the New England Institute of Management and a graduate of the DEA Academy in Washington during the early days of President Nixon’s first drug wars.

Held hostage while working undercover, he later met men hired by organized crime to kill him in a standoff near Memphis, and was involved in a gun battle with drug dealers in a heroin deal gone sour. He was Internal Affairs investigator of a plan to corrupt the MBN.

As Bell System Security Mgr., he assisted police to save a deputy mayor’s wife held hostage by a gunman, and was business manager and long range planning manager where he authored a service plan for new customers to spur sales and economic growth.

Merle is author of the novel, A Ghostly Shade of Pale, inspired by experiences in the MS. Bureau of Narcotics, and is writing the sequel, A Rented World, based on events in the Bell System and politics. His ministry, Prisoners of the Lord, planted Christian movie nights at three prison sites where thousands of men were exposed to Christ.