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.
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