Chief Mandeville has written ten books since his retirement. One book, The Fox: and the Green Emerald Inferno, won first place category in the Somerset Awards 2016. This book, The Admiral of Bolivia, made the finals in the Mark Twain Humor Awards 2019. The chief spends three winter months with his daughter, Jenn, in North Carolina and the rest of each year on Long Island, NY. His son is a sergeant with the NYPD and is a great help with his crime novels.