A.D. Ibarra -Eagle Pass

The Eagle Pass Library Foundation is holding a very special event on Saturday from 2:00-4:00 P.M. at Moore Hall on 648 Madison St. across from San Juan Plaza in order to welcome best-selling author Hipolito Acosta to Maverick County. Acosta, the most decorated agent in the history of the US Immigration & Naturalization Service, is promoting his latest book, "The Shadow Catcher" a riveting documentary of the high stakes infiltration of immigrant smuggling rings and Mexican drug cartels in and around our US borders. In his book, he finds himself sympathizing with the men and women who seek freedom, sanctuary and a better life for their families in the US as he chased the Coyotes, the smugglers who were often responsible for the injury or death of the people who have paid them for transport across the border. Acosta was the District Director of INS at the US Embassy in Mexico City and in charge of all INS operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. "The Shadow Catcher" is a first-person account of some of the remarkable event's in Acosta's 30 year career as an undercover agent in the INS and US Border Patrol as he infiltrated the worlds of human smuggling rings, rapists, counterfeiters, murderers, con men and drug smugglers often working without backup and brought them all to justice. "I know that I have saved many lives and put many unscrupulous thugs behind bars," says Acosta, "But I also realize that I am only human. I', Hipolito Acosta and these are some of my stories..." Come meet Pulitzer and Acosta on Saturday at Moore Hall to get an inside glimpse at the man, the agent and the writer.