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Bluegrass Sons is a true crime family saga set between Lexington, Kentucky, and the desert days and gaudy nights of 1970s Las Vegas, Nevada, with a little El Paso, Guatemala, and Savannah thrown in. The story is about Bradley Bryant, a United States Marine who lived a double life. The FBI labeled him ""a one-man crime wave"" responsible for the largest gunrunning, drug-smuggling network in the United States. His family considered him their rock, his mother's favorite, and a successful Philadelphia businessman. For the first time in forty years, Brad Bryant tells his truth, recording hours of conversations with his niece, Erin Chandler. Bluegrass Sons includes historical testimonies from those who were along for that ride. It's a tale of drugs, arms, assassinations, and espionage where your lies are your life even if you are one of the good guys.

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""A family memoir about ""men sucking the marrow out of the seventies, flying high on trunks of cash, buckets of Scotch Whiskey, cocaine, and marijuana,"" Bluegrass Sons jet sets all over the map, but primarily between the casinos of Las Vegas and the gothic mansions of Lexington, KY. Author Erin Chandler, whose grandfather ""Happy"" Chandler was a U.S. Senator as well as governor of Kentucky (twice!), has quite a story to tell, one that exemplifies the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction, and she tells it with typical Chandlerian panache."" -Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchel ""It is often said of someone that they come from a 'colorful' family, a description which will seem like a radical overstatement once one has read Erin Chandler's remarkable BLUEGRASS SONS, a memoir populated by gamblers, smugglers, drug dealers, CIA agents, murderers, prostitutes and a cast of characters so far removed from the ""normal"" as to warrant an entirely new definition of that term. Here is an embodiment of Philip Roth's well-known statement that we no longer have much need for fiction, since reality provides us with more than enough strangeness and incredulity to satisfy those needs. No one could have invented a story stranger than Erin Chandler's families, nor filled it with more remarkable characters, and now, gratefully, no one has to."" Michael Blumenthal, Don't Die, All My Mothers and Fathers

"""A family memoir about ""men sucking the marrow out of the seventies, flying high on trunks of cash, buckets of Scotch Whiskey, cocaine, and marijuana,"" Bluegrass Sons jet sets all over the map, but primarily between the casinos of Las Vegas and the gothic mansions of Lexington, KY. Author Erin Chandler, whose grandfather ""Happy"" Chandler was a U.S. Senator as well as governor of Kentucky (twice!), has quite a story to tell, one that exemplifies the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction, and she tells it with typical Chandlerian panache."" -Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchel ""It is often said of someone that they come from a 'colorful' family, a description which will seem like a radical overstatement once one has read Erin Chandler's remarkable BLUEGRASS SONS, a memoir populated by gamblers, smugglers, drug dealers, CIA agents, murderers, prostitutes and a cast of characters so far removed from the ""normal"" as to warrant an entirely new definition of that term. Here is an embodiment of Philip Roth's well-known statement that we no longer have much need for fiction, since reality provides us with more than enough strangeness and incredulity to satisfy those needs. No one could have invented a story stranger than Erin Chandler's families, nor filled it with more remarkable characters, and now, gratefully, no one has to."" Michael Blumenthal, Don't Die, All My Mothers and Fathers"

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