Twisted Texan, Not About George Bush

Rich Mussler, the Dallas-based author that has developed the nation's most popular Drug Enforcement Agency(DEA) agent, celebrates the anniversary of Twisted Texan and Other Stories by encouraging awareness not only of the DEA's ongoing battle with illegal drugs, but of two important truths: the book is not about President George Bush and a movie-deal is being discussed but is not yet finalized.

In celebration of the first anniversary of the book's publication by PublishAmerica, the nation's leading publisher of new fiction annually, over 6,000 Texans have signed a virtual guestbook and logged onto the book's webpage at www.twistedtexan.com.

"The number one question I get at book signing events is if the book is about George Bush," said Mussler, author and humorist. "I always laugh at that. People have stopped me in airports just to ask me that."

The Twisted Texan is a fictional DEA agent headquartered in Dallas who fights a drug cartel with links to Central and South America. The book features the character's introduction in a short story that was quickly picked up by Hollywood as a potential for a James Bond-style film series. A second book expanding upon the character's twisted personality and methods is due in 2006.

According to Michael Braun, chief of operations for the DEA, in a recent speech before a congressional International Relations Subcommittee regarding illicit drug smuggling from Central America and it's impact on the United States, "As these resources have been repositioned, traffickers have returned to this region. We believe that to effectively combat drug trafficking in Central America, the United States must establish a sustained, flexible, focused and multi-agency approach."

The fictional DEA agent in Mussler's stories embodies the cool, ironic and twisted attitude many enforcement officials have adopted in their fight against illegal drugs in this country. "Law enforcement officials sometimes feel understaffed, overworked and underpaid," Mussler noted. "It's no wonder they occasionally adopt tactics that seem twisted to the rest of us. The DEA does not endorse this fictional character or his tactics."

"Mexico and countries in Central America lie directly between the drug producing countries in South America and drug consumers in the United States," the Drug Enforcement Agency webpage notes. "This region will remain the primary transit zone for U.S.-bound drugs produced in Central and South America for the foreseeable future."

"So long as we remain a nation of dope-heads," says Mussler, "fictional characters like the Twisted Texan and real DEA agents will be in demand to fight against the tsunami of cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana."

For additional information, visit PublishAmerica(www.publishamerica.com) and The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (www.dea.gov).

     
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