In this true
crime drama set in Tucson, AZ criminal defense attorney Droban skillfully
weaves us a tight little story of murder for hire.
By
researching thousands of e-mails and recordings and putting all the pieces
together Droban writes like a novelist, building the story for us from ground
zero, taking us through the ins and outs of the lives of Tucson socialites Gary
Triano and his wife Pamela Phillips until the cold divorce and its fateful
trappings.
Pam a
successful real estate agent herself, although no match for multi-millionaire
husband and his real estate holdings and deals, was only turned on by money and
once her husband’s finances fell apart so did their relationship. Gone were the
dinners with the Trumps, the house in the foothills and gone was Pamela’s love,
no more high-rolling. She left with the children to their exclusive holiday
home in Aspen.
Ron Young,
an entrepreneur and extortionist worked his way into Pam’s life, listened to
the socialite’s tales of woe and eventually made her an offer she couldn’t
refuse, a way to get rid of that miserable ex-husband.
When Triano
was killed in a bomb blast, killed in his car after playing golf at a top
resort in Tucson’s northwest side many theories where put forth, girlfriend’s,
ex-lovers, the Mob, biker gangs but when all the facts where finally put
together by the Tucson Police Department one fact stood out more than any
other. Who gained to win with his death, win the $2,000,000.00 life insurance
policy pay-off. When trials were sought,
over a decade had past. Pamela had fled to Europe and many of the charges
against Young where nothing more than hearsay and supposition. It is at this
point in the book that you realize that this is an actual true life story, a
crime that happened and reality is always more strange than fiction. The result
is another headline.
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