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One sweltering night in June 2017, I was sitting in a bar with writer, actor, and bona fide Yankee B. J. Novak. We were in Pecos, in the heart of the West Texas oil patch, at the Red Iguana, one of the rougher watering holes in town. Unless you’re the brawling type or built like a drilling rig, the Red Iguana is not the kind of place to draw attention. And yet there we were—a table of roughnecks staring us down.A few months before, Novak had emailed me, saying he was writing a movie called Vengeance set in West Texas. He’d read some of my work and asked if I’d be willing to show him around the region. “Sure,” I replied. Before coming to Pecos, we’d…

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