About Rex Holloway, writer
Rex Holloway writes crime thrillers shaped by a life that has seen both darkness and redemption.
- 4.5+ average reader rating on Amazon
- 10+ million views on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell, The Sit Down with Michael Franzese, and VladTV.
His Mason Series plunges readers into a brutal world of outlaw bikers, crime syndicates, cartel violence, and elite security operators. Known for gritty realism and relentless pacing, Holloway’s stories explore the thin line between justice and vengeance, loyalty and betrayal, survival and faith.
Before becoming an author and entrepreneur, Holloway lived a life far removed from the world of publishing. As a young man he became involved in gangs and the outlaw lifestyle that surrounds them. Those choices eventually led to prison, where he spent years in solitary confinement. It was during that time that he rebuilt his life through discipline, education, and an unrelenting commitment to change.
After his release, Holloway went on to build successful businesses. Today he writes stories about violence, consequence, and redemption for crime thriller readers who crave authenticity.
When he’s not working or writing, he lifts weights, plays bass guitar, and trains boxing and Muay Thai.
1994 article About San Antonio being a major gang city
For those who doubted what I said on VladTV about San Antonio being a major gang city in the 1990's.
San Antonio reported about 1,262 drive-bys in San Antonio in 1993 versus 221 in Dallas, with police estimating ten unreported for every one reported .
I remembered the city led in something about gangs back in the 1990's, and I thought it was in Time Magazine. Turns out, it was drive-by shootings, and it was in Texas Monthly. San Antonio was a major gang city in those days. That's a fact. I remembered that article in 2026 all the way from 1994.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/we-get-all-hyped-up-we-do-a-drive-by/
For anyone who thinks I "debriefed"
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) officially launched the GRAD program in 2000 following an initial pilot phase in 1999. Operating out of the Ellis and Ramsey units, the program completed its trial parameters and transitioned into a fully open, system-wide enrollment model by the 2004 fiscal year. However, because the intensive 9-month rehabilitation curriculum required strict disciplinary vetting, extensive background investigations by the STG Management Office, and specialized classroom spaces, a severe multi-year backlog quickly formed. This bottleneck meant that thousands of inmates who had formally volunteered to renounce their gang affiliations were left stranded on wait lists, effectively restricting entry and trapping them in administrative segregation for years before a designated program bed became available.
As my paperwork shows, I was still on Ferguson Unit in 2004 when they gave me a serve-all. I long-way discharged from there in 2005, long before I would have ever made it through a wait list. I refused three parole hearings, ignored every program, and walked straight out of ad. seg. into freedom.
