Kathy Bingham Turner, with the help of journalist Leon Alligood, has written an account of her grandfather and his crimes. In 1915, a man named Boss Bingham from Saltillo in Hardin County, Tennessee, faked his own death from a fiery auto accident and fled west. Bingham was the head cashier of the Hardin County Bank, and the state auditor was due to pay the bank a visit in only a few days. Under allegations of fraud and embezzlement, Bingham left behind a wife and three children, all of whom believed he was now dead. He found work as a rancher in the small town of San Angelo, Texas, and started a new family under the name Marvin Lester Brooks. Two families, and two tombstones, would only be put together from a death bed confession after Brooks suffered a stroke in 1972, more than forty years after faking his own death. Turner and Alligood explore the wild story of Bingham/Brooks, the history of rural Tennessee and Texas, and two families' understanding of a complicated man.