This novel is a typical piece of Southern fiction about good socially conscientious citizens versus evil lawmen and Klansmen. The characters are all stereotypical for this type of literature. The setting is a fictional town in Mississipps where there is the ubiquitous prison farm on which the predominantly black convicts are taken advantage of. The drowning of a baby, supposedly by its black nanny, is the spark that sets off a sequence of events which lead to an ending you can probably accurately guess without even reading the book.

Tom Bailey was at our book club for our discussion of his book. It takes some getting over the southern dialect and starts out slow, but gets better as you move along. I think this book would make a great movie!