An Italian gangster from back East was brought to Arizona to play an Italian gangster from back East in an undercover sting targeting crooked politicians. We hooked up after the dimes were dropped (21 indictments) and collaborated on my third book, What’s In It For Me? I’m seen here promoting it at — you guessed it — a political function. My new desert home also figured in the setting of the multi-faceted novel Grand Slam, and even more extensively in The Grand Escape, the fourth installment of The Chandler Chronicles.