Mississippi Reckoning
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"Riveting." - Kirkus Reviews
"Powerful." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"Gripping and harrowing . . . Punches the reader in the guts." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Will leave you reeling--and thinking." - Mike Farrell, M*A*S*H star
"Wonderful story-telling. Enthralling." - Diane Nash, legendary civil rights leader
From a lawyer who got his real-life client off death row comes a thriller about an attorney who did not.
The "stirring story" (Kirkus Reviews) of a tortured man's quest to right the scales of justice--by assassinating KKK murderers.
After watching his client die in the gas chamber, attorney Gideon Roth is shattered. His old life collapses as he is overcome with guilt and despair. But soon he finds new purpose: he will drive to Mississippi to revisit the scenes of his youth--and to slay the KKK members who got away with murdering civil rights workers 30 years earlier.
Can a Mississippi police chief intercept a would-be assassin without knowing his name, appearance, age, race or even the sound of his voice? Will Gideon be turned from his quest by his encounters along the way? A road trip to the past exposes the roots of murder.
"A heart-pounding, soul-wrenching narrative." - Federal Judge Thelton Henderson
"Rooted in history . . . Riveting." - Eric Foner, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Fiery Trial
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Reviews
"In Mississippi Reckoning Mitchell Zimmerman punches the reader in the guts with intersecting stories of terrible violence . . . The novel is gripping and harrowing, . . . deeply disturbing yet also revelatory. . . . This is an author who knows the landscape of American racial horror, a survivor who brings his own experience and emotions to bear in exceptional prose." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Riveting . . . A stirring, well-constructed story that follows a tortured man's moral progress." -Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful novel that derives most of its juice from the history it wends through and around. ... Mississippi Reckoning is affecting and highly readable as it commingles fact and invention in artful ways. ... Puts me in mind of James Ellroy's Los Angeles novels. Mississippi Reckoning, while a work of fiction, also feels like a means of keeping faith." -Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"Gripping, wonderful story-telling ... Mitchell Zimmerman has given us a brilliant and heart-rending novel. ... Family saga, freedom song and cry for justice come together in Mississippi Reckoning, as a despairing man seeks vengeance for wrongs beyond his power to right." -Diane Nash, civil rights leader, Freedom Rider, SNCC founder
"A heart-pounding, soul-wrenching narrative, in which the evils of a bygone era remain invisibly amongst us-shadows of past suffering, fostering the cruelest tragedies of today."
-Thelton Henderson, Federal Judge, civil rights pioneer
"A powerful book! Mississippi Reckoning takes you on a trip that will leave you reeling--and thinking." - Mike Farrell, star of M*A*S*H
"Mississippi Reckoning's road trip is a suspense-filled journey well worth following to its ending." - The Champion
