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No ordinary bird : drug smuggling, a plane crash, and a daughter's quest for the truth / Artis Henderson.
Van Pelt Library HV5805.C5155 H46 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Artis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henderson, Artis--Childhood and youth.
- Henderson, Artis.
- Chester, Tilton Lamar, Jr., 1937-1985.
- Chester, Tilton Lamar.
- Drug dealers--United States--Biography.
- Drug dealers.
- Fathers--Death.
- Fathers.
- Aircraft accidents--United States.
- Aircraft accidents.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
- Summary:
- A memoir in which the author investigates the life and death of her father, a pilot whose fatal plane crash in her childhood was long described as an accident. As she researches his past, she uncovers his involvement in drug smuggling during the 1970s and the circumstances surrounding his planned testimony in a major criminal case. The narrative blends family history with an examination of crime, secrecy, and personal legacy.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The accident
- Wrightsville
- No ordinary bird
- Family man
- Lamar and Artis
- First run
- The transportation guy
- Monopoly money
- "That's not chicken feed, but it will buy a lot of it!"
- Bill, Terry, and Jen
- The islands
- Operation lone star
- Welcome to the world, baby girl
- The drug problem
- The Lesley Bickerton affair
- Darby
- The Indictment
- The Bahamian Royal Commission of Inquiry
- The arrest
- WITSEC
- The courthouse
- Summer 1985
- Disappeared
- Uncle Tony
- Covert agent
- The woodwork
- Ron Elliot
- Homecoming
- The field
- Redmond Wells
- Family.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Henderson, Artis. No ordinary bird
- ISBN:
- 9780358650270
- 0358650275
- OCLC:
- 1493077687
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