{"product_id":"no-ordinary-bird-drug-smuggling-a-plane-crash-and-a-daughters-quest-for-the-truth","title":"No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter's Quest for the Truth","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn the vein of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Small Fry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Priestdaddy, No Ordinary Bird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a compelling father-daughter story that reads like true crime, haunted by a question the dashing and mysterious Lamar Chester had always taught his daughter to ask: ‚Äú\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow do you tell the good guys from the bad?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äù\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtis was five when a plane crash killed her beloved father. For years, it was simply called ‚Äúthe accident.‚Äù\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut many things \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eweren‚Äôt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egetting discussed. Like Lamar himself‚Äîa swashbuckling, larger-than-life pilot, a doting father and husband, and the most popular farmer in Georgia. Or that the IRS had immediately taken everything: the chickens, the airplanes, the islands in the Bahamas. . . . Afterwards, Artis and her mother broke contact with everyone and fled, rebuilding from the bottom up as if Lamar‚Äôs big, wild life had never happened.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYears later, a friend tells Artis Lamar‚Äôs plane was sabotaged: her father had been one of the biggest drug smugglers in Miami in the 1970s. At the time of his death, he was about to testify in a trial that had swept up everyone from the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, to a US district attorney, to the Colombian drug cartels. But the deeper Artis digs, the more unexpected the story becomes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeyond the dramatic betrayals, dangerous drug lords, and geopolitical intrigue is the beating heart of this riveting memoir: a daughter‚Äôs grappling with a dark legacy and her memories of the father who had been the light of her life. Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, and is there a difference at all?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003eder-toggle=\"{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301801922845,"sku":"9780358650270","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780358650270.jpg?v=1756487522","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/no-ordinary-bird-drug-smuggling-a-plane-crash-and-a-daughters-quest-for-the-truth","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}