2001 . Very rare uncorrected proof and Advance reading Copy. This edition comes out before the first edition and is sent to a select group for reviews. A true first edition manuscript. Authors note indicates this was printed a year before the book went on sale.
In 1951, the Ku Klux Klan brutally murders nineteen-year-old Marvin Cully, a crime that transforms the town of Mayflower, Florida, into a battleground as violence erupts across the state and Thurgood Marshall and Harry T. Moore of the NAACP join the Reesa McMahon and her family, owners of a local orange grove, to uncover the killers, in a story based on a real-life crime
