Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge
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🌎Border smuggling saga
📚True crime deep dive
⚖️Historic federal judge assassination
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Dirty Dealing chronicles the rise and fall of the Chagra brothers, pioneering drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border, culminating in the 1979 assassination of Federal Judge John Wood—the first in over a century. Authored by Gary Cartwright, a seasoned Texas Monthly editor, this true crime masterpiece offers a deeply researched, compelling narrative that reveals the dark intersections of crime, corruption, and justice in American history.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 194 Reviews |
D**.
The best book on the Chagras and Judge Wood murder.
Gary Cartwright has produced the best work on these two subjects. Exhaustively researched and extremely well written. The Chagras family is chronicled, warts and all. A very powerful work of El Paso/Juarez, Mexico history. It did seem that Judge Wood's murder was inevitable. If the cartels ever took hold in the USA, this book outlined that. The FBI prevented that from happening. That is the difference between the USA and Mexico.We are lucky. As bad as Judge Wood was, this book shows the cartels would be worse.
P**N
True story of a drug king pin
Liked the book because it was a well known attorney that everyone knew here in El Paso, Texas...it's how it all came down from start to finish. It was in our local newspaper every day.
S**O
Good book
Great book about the brothers attorneys in El Paso, TX. I’m from El Paso. I read this when I was 15. Now I read it again and it seemed better. Recommend.
M**S
Highly recommended books about the drug world.
One of the best books of its genre.
B**E
Amazon Dealing
I love this book. This author -- Gary Cartwright -- has done a fabulous job writing this true story about a convoluted family hell-bent on rising to the top of wealth and power, no matter the risk and cost. Their plot against a Federal Judge John Wood, whose reputation was exceptionally harsh, keeps the reader on the edge of his seat. The hit man, Charles Harrelsen (Woody's dad), now deceased, will put a few goose bumps on your arms. (Good thing Woody's Mom pointed him in the right way.)
S**D
Good Book-Disappointed by Prosecution.
Factual - outstanding book. I have never doubted Jimmy Chagra’s and Charles Harrelsons’s guilt and I am always prosecution oriented...but I’m disappointed in the case put on by the government. Gary’s book is outstanding.
D**L
I had borrowed my brothers book but in a move ...
I had borrowed my brothers book but in a move I misplaced it, so I was trying to replace the book although it looks the same there were no pictures, it appears to read the same, but without the pictures.
C**.
border drugs
the book is about the chagra family and there drug dealings. it is one of the best written, well documented books i have ever read on the subject and Cartwright personally knew all players. jimmy chagra had federal judge john wood Jr killed el Paso Texas is 120 miles from my home town and the hit man and his dad had a house here. i knew several people mentioned but never knew there was any link between them until i read the book.
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