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1960s Austin Gangsters

Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital

by Jesse Sublett ...

Series series True Crime
Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers ... Read more

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Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers
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Rock Critic Murders

by Jesse Sublett ...

Martin Fender is a blues bassist and part-time detective in the hothouse music scene in Austin, Texas in the mid-1980s. In this complex and quirky novel, desperate rock critics who hold a grudge against Martin's old band are murdered over a missing kilo of cocaine. Real estate scammers, a suicidal guitarist and a homicidal redhead make for a thrill-ride at 120 decibels.Author Jesse Sublett is, ... Read more

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Martin Fender is a blues bassist and part-time detective in the hothouse music scene in Austin, Texas in the mid-1980s. In this complex and quirky novel, desperate rock critics who hold a grudge against Martin's old band are murdered over a missing kilo of cocaine. Real estate scammers, a suicidal guitarist and a homicidal redhead make for a thrill-ride at 120 decibels.Author Jesse Sublett is,
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Grave Digger Blues (Bare Bones Edition)

by Jesse Sublett ...

Crime fiction author and musician Jesse Sublett has been compared to Tom Waits, James Ellroy, Otis Rush, Michael Connelly and Denis Johnson. Not surprisingly, then, his new ebook, Grave Digger Blues, is a blast of surreal, post-apocalyptic noir, laced with blues poetry and actual songs and poems, the hardest of the hardboiled, the darkest of all noir fiction around today.The novel is set during ... Read more

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Crime fiction author and musician Jesse Sublett has been compared to Tom Waits, James Ellroy, Otis Rush, Michael Connelly and Denis Johnson. Not surprisingly, then, his new ebook, Grave Digger Blues, is a blast of surreal, post-apocalyptic noir, laced with blues poetry and actual songs and poems, the hardest of the hardboiled, the darkest of all noir fiction around today.The novel is set during
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Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art

by Bob Wade, Lisa Sherman, Jason Mellard, Carl Hoover, Ricardo Hernandez, Carla Ellard, Jesse Sublett, Katie Robinson-Edwards, Dan Bullock, Marsha Milam, Jim Ferguson, Bill Fitzgibbons, Chris O'Connell, Temple Boon, Jack Massing, Michael Brick, Cleve Hattersley, Shannon Wynne, Lynn Barnett, Andi Scull, Richard Holland, Will Harte, Gary Webernick, Leea Mechling, Mike Shropshire, Karen Dinitz, John Kelso, John Tinker, Lonn Taylor, Dan O'Hara, DJ Stout, Jan Reid, Dick DeGuerin, Evan Voyles, Pete Gershon, Roy Bragg, Eric O'Keefe, Kevin Williamson, Marc English, Robert Faires, Edmond Ortiz, Michael Barnes, Anne Rapp, Diana Vela, Julie Sasse, Kent Zimmerman, Michael Hoinski, David Marion Wilkinson, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, Bert Beveridge, Claudia Alarcón, Joe Nick Patoski ...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s ... Read more

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Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s
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Last Gangster in Austin

Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia

by Jesse Sublett ...

Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal ... Read more

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Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal
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Broke, Not Broken

Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War

by Jesse Sublett, Broadus A. Spivey ...

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Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centers, and subdivisions. On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against Maxey ... Read more

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Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centers, and subdivisions. On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against Maxey
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Armadillo World Headquarters

A Memoir

by Eddie Wilson, Jesse Sublett ...

“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I’d thought not so much lost as forgotten. Not only am I thrilled I’ve read this story and wish I was in it, I wish I’d written it.”—Dave Marsh, ... Read more

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“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I’d thought not so much lost as forgotten. Not only am I thrilled I’ve read this story and wish I was in it, I wish I’d written it.”—Dave Marsh,
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Last Gangster in Austin

Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia

by Jesse Sublett ...

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Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay.But Ronnie Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal ... Read more

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Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay.But Ronnie Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal
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1960s Austin Gangsters

Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital

by Jesse Sublett ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

4 hours 38 min

Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers
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The Big Bamboo

A Novel

by Tim Dorsey ...

Series Book 8 - Serge Storms

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Run, Rose, Run

A Novel

by James Patterson, Dolly Parton ...

The #1 bestselling thriller from America's most beloved superstar and the world's #1 bestselling author—and the inspiration for the major motion picture from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine.A new singer arrives in Nashville. She calls herself AnnieLee Keyes, and she has more beauty, talent, and ambition than most—and a dangerous past that she's running from.Her performance of original songs at ... Read more

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The #1 bestselling thriller from America's most beloved superstar and the world's #1 bestselling author—and the inspiration for the major motion picture from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine.A new singer arrives in Nashville. She calls herself AnnieLee Keyes, and she has more beauty, talent, and ambition than most—and a dangerous past that she's running from.Her performance of original songs at
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Bones of the Lost

A Temperance Brennan Novel

by Kathy Reichs ...

Series series A Temperance Brennan Novel
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking.When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance ... Read more

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking.When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance
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