The author, Rick Linton, known as “Axe” in this story, is Mexican American, a father, husband, and a Los Angeles Police Officer. Rick’s father was a veteran and police officer who was injured on duty when Rick was just a boy. Rick chose to become a major metropolitan police officer in the city of Los Angeles regardless of his father’s trauma early on in his life. Prior to writing this memoir, Rick had 16 years of experience in law enforcement and a doctorate in Psychology earned while on the job. This intense memoir will keep you on the edge of your seat. It begins with Axe’s memory of his father, Rick, who was a retired 82nd Airborne paratrooper and Las Vegas police officer when Axe was just a boy. Axe depicts a trauma experienced by Rick, his father, during police work that would have ripple effects on Rick’s family for decades. Though his parents are apprehensive, Axe pursues a career in law enforcement. “Why Is Everything Wet” illustrates the graphic and gruesome details of police work so much so that you will smell, taste, and feel the incidents of his work as you read. Axe shares raw ethnic and racial interpersonal conflict as he interacts with people of his same ethnicity but realizes just how different they are. Axe empathetically shares stories of inspiring victims and perpetrators overcoming adversity in gangs, drug trade, and human trafficking. Rick humanizes law enforcement with a portrayal of his relationships with his peers, family, and an intimate relationship. The reader of this law enforcement book is taken on a journey of Axe and Faye, a fellow college student, falling in love. Though they struggle to maintain a relationship in his early years in law enforcement, they eventually marry and have two boys. This raw depiction of law enforcement is a must-read police book, romance novel, and inspirational book for anyone interested in the lives of those in law enforcement, the underground of Los Angeles crime, or looking for inspiration in the face of adversity.