Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge: An American Parable - Paperback
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"Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the dark, lawless aspect that often rules El Paso will find themselves pulled along by the plot: brigands and intrigue leap from almost every page, and the story just gets wilder the further into it you venture."--from an Amazon.com review
Four pages into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: "[Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared." Everything you'll need to know and remember about Chagra--the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso-Juarez border around his finger like the gaudy rings he favored--can be neatly summarized in that one sentence. Chagra dies two pages later, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter.
Gary Cartwright is a long-respected, award-winning journalist and contributing editor to Texas Monthly magazine. The author of numerous books, he has contributed stories to such national publications as Harper's, Life, and Esquire. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Gary Cartwright was an acclaimed reporter, novelist, nonfiction author, and screenwriter. He received a B.A. in journalism and government from Texas Christian University in 1957 and served as a newspaper reporter in Texas for the next decade. Cartwright's first book, a football novel entitled The Hundred Yard War, was published in 1967. His work appeared in The Texas Observer, Esquire, Saturday Review, Rolling Stone, and especially Texas Monthly, a magazine with which he was associated from its inception. A collection of his Texas Monthly articles can be found in Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, and his true-crime books Blood Will Tell and Dirty Dealing both began as articles for the magazine. He received many honors for his writing, including the Texas Institute of Letters's Stanley Walker Award and the Press Club of Dallas Katie Award. Cartwright passed away in 2017 at the age of eighty-two.
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