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Minutes 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 not long after, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter.

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Gary Cartwright (1934-2017) had a distinguished career as a journalist, author, and magazine writer. After more than three decades as a writer and editor at Texas Monthly, Cartwright retired in August 2010. His awards include a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship and the Stanley Walker Award for Journalism (both awarded by the Texas Institute of Letters) and the Carr Collins Award for Nonfiction. He also won the 1989 Press Club of Dallas Katie Award for Best Magazine News Story, and he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1986 in the category of ""Reporting Excellence."" J. Rodney Turner is a prolific audiobook narrator who specializes in historical fiction set in the post-Civil War era, as well as Westerns, mystery/thrillers, and crime dramas. Rodney served as an air traffic controller in the Navy and in the Federal Aviation Administration for a combined thirty-one years. He has two sons, four grandsons, and one granddaughter, and resides in a small farming community north of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife of over twenty years, Julie, and their daughter, Rylie.

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