Boomtown
The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas

I am always a sucker for a good history book that explores an area that I am wholly unfamiliar with, so Boom Town seemed right up my alley as a Midwesterner who has only scant knowledge of Texas history outside of the Alamo. While the author clearly did his research, I found that this book simply ha......more

The way it was written made it easy to read and keep my interest. I liked the character descriptions at the end of the book. Plenty of interesting characters.......more

Book: Boomtown: The True Story of Wickest Town in Texas Author: Joe Pappalardo Rating: 2 Out of 5 Stars I would like to thank the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, for sending me an ARC. I’m not going to lie. This is was not the book that I thought I was going to be reading. The marketing of this book i......more

"Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas." by Joe Pappalardo will soon be published by St. Martin's Press. They have provided me with an ARC for my review. My first impression is that this is a fascinating look at crime and political corruption in the Oil Patch in Texas during the pe......more

Boomtown presents an ambitious portrait of Borger, Texas, framing it as a place where lawlessness seeps into every layer of society. Much of the book reads as a sustained defense of the author’s central claim: that the town’s “bad guys” aren’t limited to typical criminals, but also include politicia......more