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A rookie district attorney, a wily, backslapping multimillionaire bail bondsman, and one of the biggest criminal investigations in Austin history. Jesse Sublett's book is both a riveting crime story and a character-rich study of Austin, Texas. It's smartly crafted and excellently researched. -- Skip Hollandsworth, author of The Midnight Assassin A true-crime story...replete with genuine heroes, repellent villains, and a slew of supporting characters any self-respecting crime novelist would be proud to have created on the page...Sublett constructs the story with a sharp eye and a hard-boiled flair. -- Austin Chronicle Enjoy this romp back in time to the era when Ronnie Earle ruled at the courthouse and Frank Smith in the salvage business. -- Kathryn Casey, author of In Plain Sight Jesse Sublett is a first-rate writer and researcher. Once again he dives deep, exposing the creeps and bottom feeders of Austin's criminal past to create an engrossing portrait of district attorney Ronnie Earle at the dawn of his long and legendary career. -- W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch Sublett's riveting true-crime story reads like a classic noir novel. -- Austin American-Statesman

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"Jesse Sublett is an author, musician, and painter in Austin who last wrote about the Austin underworld in 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital. Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their ""Best Voices of the Year."" He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art."

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