Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor -- Some Useful Law Enforcement Acronyms -- 1. Guns, Bombs, and Moonshine Whiskey -- Introduction -- Slick Jamison and the Dixie Mafia -- An Infernal Machine -- Poison Moonshine and Love among the Jurors -- Bluebeard, or Murder with a Balpeen Hammer -- My First Time in the Fifth Circus -- "Not without My Daughter's Teeth" -- A Modern-Day Train Robbery Is Averted -- Batesville Boys in a Cajun Bomb Conspiracy -- Running Guns to Chicago -- Memphis Medical Examiner O. C. Smith, Crucified -- A Japanese Prosecutor Comes to Oxford -- 2. Drug Lords Have Troubles Too -- Introduction -- From Law Enforcement Major to Cocaine Kingpin: Charlie Cook of Oxford -- Mexican Air Smuggling: A Stolen Jet, a Ton of Weed, and a Dead Tarantula -- Lt. Shirlene Anderson Saves the Life of Agent Elbert Craig -- "Stepper" Dotson Loses His Girlfriend-and His Rolls Royce -- College-Educated Drug Kingpins Go Corporate, Still Get Caught -- Two Dinners in the Big Easy in One Night? With a Mormon Bishop? -- 3. Crime Victims Fight Back -- Introduction -- A Creepy Extortionist: Letters from the Rat -- Pistol Packin' Sisters of Yalobusha County -- "I Fought the Law and the Law Won" -- Wild Justice: A Drunken Dove Hunt Turns Violent -- Arson in the Delta: The Near-sighted Mr. Magoo as Eyewitness -- Only the Lonely -- Secret Agent Man: "We're Givin' You a Number and Takin' Away Your Name" -- The Snakeman: "Satanist Pimp Seeks Fair Trial in Mississippi" -- "You Can't Rape Your Wife, Can You?" -- A Victim Stays Strong -- A Victim Stays Smart -- Zulu Justice in Old New Orleans -- Project Safe Neighborhoods: A Victim City Fights Back against Violent Street Gangs -- 4. "Mere Theft" -- Introduction -- Cyber Crime: "Circling Our Cyber Wagons" to Become "Paradigm Busters".

A California FBI Agent Discovers Conway Twitty's Lounge at Moon Lake -- Dooksie and the Hot Cadillacs -- The World's Sorriest Thief Steals from Hurricane Katrina Victims -- The Royal Saudi Chicken Caper: "Young Chickens, Easily Grilled or Broiled" -- The Lady from Red Fox Defeats a Municipal Bond Scam -- Federal Judges or "Wine-Sippin' Servants of Satan"? -- Bank Robbers: A Breed of Thieves Slightly Apart -- A Piece of Cake or Police Entrapment? -- An Unusual Sentencing -- Just Like in the Movies: The "Maggot" Family -- 5. Fancy Frauds -- Introduction -- In Geneva, Penetrating Swiss Bank Secrecy -- A Pious Fraud: "Only the Lord Knows the Depth of Your Pocketbook" -- A Classic Nigerian Scam: "We Have a Secret Process" -- "Staggering, Slobbering, Delirium, and Death": The Largest Cattle-Poisoning in US History Is Narrowly Averted -- Welcome to Libya -- "I'm a Surgeon for the CIA" -- The Chicago Mob Comes to Grenada, Meets Prosecutor Jim Letten -- And Sexual Enhancement for All: "Bustin' Loose" Brings Gender Equity to Telemarketing Fraud -- The Health Care Fraud Follies: Chiropractors Ahoy -- Really Extreme Couponing -- The Sweet Life (for a While) of a Big-Time Bookie -- Guntown Corners the Market with Over 20 Million in Contraband Cigarettes -- Notes -- Bibliography of Related Readings -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.