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In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- --mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four people: the aging sheriff sympathetic to both sides; the widowed midwife who delivered nearly every member of Hell-at-the-Breech; a ruthless detective who wages his own war against the gang; and a young store clerk who harbors a terrible secret. Based on incidents that occurred a few miles from the author's childhood home, Hell at the Breech chronicles the events of dark days that led the people involved to discover their capacity for good, evil, or for both.

About the Author :
Tom Franklin is the New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. He teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

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"Clean, unpretentious language laid down in masterly fashion propel's Franklin's reconstruction of impoverished tenant farmers taking the law, or lack their own hands at the end of the 19th century...Historical fiction as smooth and relentless as the darkest Elmore Leonard. First-rate." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Arguably the most extraordinary first novel to come out of the South since Charles Frazier's National Book Award-winning Cold Mountain. In one fell swoop, Franklin leaps to the forefront of contemporary Southern writers." - Orlando Sentinel "Another literary knockout...In Hell at the Breech, Franklin has cleverly woven history and fiction, using detail as a tool to shape his plot. He also makes his characters rise up from the pages as if they were there with you. Along with breathtaking descriptions of Mitcham Beat's scenery (you can practically feel the cotton buds beneath your fingertips and smell the pine in the air), Franklin does what Harper Lee did in To Kill a Mockingbird; He lets his set of quirky characters run the story while he focuses on the repercussions of his characters' curiosity and age." Hell at the Breech is an impressive novel that should catapult Franklin into the big leagues. - USA Today "Beautifully written and potent...Franklin's pungent rendering of place and character, his perfect selection of the convincing detail, is what makes his work so compelling. He knows the grit, detritus and psychology of life in the rural world, is utterly convincing in his renditions of violence, yet responds to nature with near poetry of appreciation. In this powerful novel Franklin shows that though he has learned well from splendid sources he has become something of his own, and Hell at the Breech is the proof." - Washington Post Book World "Historical fiction that is breathtaking both in its power and its poetry...Franklin brings immense lyrical power to his debut novel... discovers a breathtaking poetry in man's inhumanity to man." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A work of historical fiction that evocatively captures the tensions of the post-Civil War-South...Filled with an almost Faulknrian sense of the darkest recesses of the human spirit, Hell at the Breech is also a beautifully crafted homage not just to the men who prevail but also to the world in which they live." - New Orleans Times-Picayune


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780061849640
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Collins
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061849642
  • Publisher Date: 13 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 368


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