Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia is Chet's first book.

Dream Room is the true story of the Dixie Mafia, which is sometimes called the Southern Mafia.  Unlike the more famous Sicilian Mafia, members of the Dixie Mafia were linked only by crime and not by family or ethnicity.  Their criminal activities included moonshine, bootlegging, gambling, drug trafficking, dog fighting, burglary, prostitution, and murder.  They achieved the peak of their power between 1960 and the end of the 1980s. 

Chet earned a degree in English from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. For the next seven years he worked as an investigator for a federal agency involved in the national security program.

In 1984 he received his law degree from the University of Mississippi. Since then, he has practiced law on the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Mobile.  He is married to his law partner, Gail.  Chet is currently hard at work on his next book: No Level Ground

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