Blue, Illicit and Unspoken: Everything which is illegal isn't secret in East Texas

Crooks wore badges in Longview, Texas in 1972. In Blue, Illicit and Unspoken, a novel by Faith Chatham, Sheriff Wade Wallace is adept at exploiting peoples' emotional and economic vulnerabilities to draw them into the vortex of the multi-million dollar crime syndicate he operates out of the Court House (similar to one operated by Gregg County Sheriff Tom Welch in the late 1970s). People hear of, but prefer not to know about, the illicit activities of their local elected officials.
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