The Stray BulletWilliam S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business venturesincluding a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New Yorkand an already long history of drug use and arrests. He would remain in Mexico for