The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.
Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free--and meet--her convicted "fiancÚ."
With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news...
- ISBN10 1568952171
- ISBN13 9781568952178
- Publish Date 31 December 1995 (first published 7 February 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wheeler Publishing Inc
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English