The Mexico Run / Jailbreak

THE MEXICO RUN: Mark Johns returns from his tour of duty in Vietnam with a great money-making scheme. He plans to head down to Mexico, score a supply of Acapulco Gold, and re-sell it to a supplier in San Francisco. But to do so, he has to first deal with a crooked Mexican cop named Captain Hernando Morales, a very dangerous man who’s got his hand in just about everything. Before he can even get started, Johns rescues a young runaway named Sharon in San Diego, and now he’s saddled with the extra responsibility of trying to keep her safe from Morales while working out the logistics of moving a large supply of grass into the States. The first shipment is easy. After that, things go south… JAILBREAK: Sally Modesto is a prison lifer. But he has a plan to escape. So he pulls Jed, Cotton and Mordecai into it, and tempts the captain of the guard, McVey, into helping them. Modesto has got important connections outside the prison, and through his lawyer, the financial means to pay for his plan. But first they need to get Jed into the warden’s office. After that, it’s just a matter of finding a helicopter pilot desperate enough to fly into the prison’s courtyard. The plan is timed to precision. What they don’t figure on is Palmer, the snitch, who rooms with Cotton. Or the warden’s pregnant wife, who is lunching with her husband that day. But it’s too late now―the plan is set into motion…

Lionel White was born July 9, 1905 in New York City. He started his career as a police reporter and true crime magazine editor, and turned those experiences toward fiction writing with his first novel, The Snatchers, in 1953, about a failed kidnapping. He wrote more than 35 books, many of them translated into different languages and turned into films like The Night of the Following Day, The Money Trap, The Big Caper, Pierrot le Fou and perhaps most famously, The Killing, adapted by Stanley Kubrick from White’s novel, Clean Break. He was considered the master of the big caper, and was credited by director Quentin Tarantino with the inspiration for his film, Reservoir Dogs. White died December 26, 1985, in Asheville, North Carolina.