AUGUSTA — Maine authors John Ford and Mark Nickerson will give a talk on their books at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28. The free program will take place in the Reading Room and books will be available for purchase and signing. Ford and Nickerson are old friends who worked together in law enforcement in Waldo County. They travel the state together promoting their books, sharing stories and trading good-natured barbs.

Retired Maine game warden Ford wrote “Suddenly, the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good,” a collection of true tales, both humorous and serious, from the trenches of law enforcement, and which also includes heartwarming accounts of his rescue of hurt or abandoned animals.

The stories in Nickerson’s “Blue Lights in the Night” offer a rare view inside the life of a Maine state police trooper. Published by North Country Press in Unity, the book is Nickerson’s first. He began his 28-year career as a state trooper in the Moosehead Lake region and finished in the Waldo and Kennebec County areas of central Maine.

Nickerson handled both harrowing and humorous encounters, from pursuing a murder suspect to trying to foil an outhouse bandit on Halloween. Protecting a president, escorting home the body of a fallen soldier, and notifying family members that a loved one had died were all part of a day’s work.

Lithgow Library is at 45 Winthrop Street. For more information, call 207-626-2415 or visit www.lithgow.lib.me.us.