Chestbuster

In 1970s and '80s Las Vegas, James McKines built one of the most invisible drug empires the West Side had ever seen - moving product across three states in a constable's truck with a badge on the door, operating for twenty years without a single piece of paper connecting his name to the weight. He was the first man in his federal district charged under the continuing criminal enterprise statute. The judge gave him natural life and laughed when he said it. His ten-year-old son got a phone call instead of Disneyland.

Twenty-seven and a half years later - through Marion, ADX Florence, and five federal facilities - President Barack Obama signed James McKines's commutation. He walked out of FCI Phoenix on February 24, 2017.

This is Book One of four. It covers the beginning: a boy orphaned by Mississippi, raised by a segregated Las Vegas, shaped by the back door Baker showed him from a gold Thunderbird. The rise of Chestbuster. The fall. The gavel. Every word of it true.

His son put a recorder on a kitchen table and said: tell me everything. Not the spy story. Everything. CHESTBUSTER: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of James McKines is what his father told him.

Publisher: Villain Press | Series: Chestbuster, Book 1 of 4 | Author: J.A. McKines