True story of author's uncle. How a 14 year old boy walked off a Texas cottonfield and with common sense and guts became a bootlegger, gambler and bank robber. Then, changed his life after he became a husband and father.

Asa Dunnington was born in Logan, Iowa and raised in Southern California. He was a stringer sports writer for the San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune. He is an Air Force veteran and was a lead advanceman for Vice President Spirow Agnew. He has two sons and a daughter. He is married to his second wife, Cheryl.