"Now I'm just trying to figure out how much is actually based on Hock's career" Very, very, very, very, very, very little. Some of the people are based on real people. Kellog himself is a composite of several people. Not me. Some events real somewhere...
The book was written before the Decaprio, Matt Damien, Nickelson movie
Departed - where the Boston mob recruits a cop from rookie stage on up as an informant. I knew that happened at times (being a Jersey boy), but regular people didn't know about such things, and they discounted that implanted cop plot line in my book as being unreal. Whoops! Discounted UNTIL, the
Departed movie came out.
The Departed was based on a true story!The beginning of the Diller Bailey thing actually happened to me, but not this cool, and with the mob from Kansas City and the local yokels. But obviously NOTHING like the book.
Of course all the horse stuff and the drug smuggling...all around us
http://hockscombatforum.com/index.php/topic,3215.0.htmlI wrote this book BEFORE the Quintin Tarentino days, as the Vegas segment has since been described as "Tarentino-esque." But it came before that.
The "Shitfire Yank" story in the Houston pawn shop? Allegedly true in Texas pawn shop lore. That little story was a big inspiration for whole storyline.
If this books sells well, I will do the second Kellog story. Already outlined from star to finished and 1/4 done.
Face the Muzac. About Kellog and a life-long criminal he's battled with since was 22 years old and on patrol with the Houston PD. It is a great story if I don't say so myself.
But, like Archie Lennox says - I know where my bread is buttered.
Hock
