Black Knight: A Novel of Alexander Keith McClung
On the Mississippi frontier, a man's reputation can survive the violence that destroys another man's future.
Alexander Keith McClung is a gifted Mississippi lawyer with a dangerous reputation. His wit and courage win admirers, but his readiness to answer an insult with violence threatens the life he hopes to build. When a supper-table confrontation leads him to challenge Vicksburg merchant John L. Menefee, both men have opportunities to turn back. The decision to continue will reach far beyond the men holding the rifles.
In the years that follow, military service, political ambition, and a diplomatic appointment in Bolivia carry McClung beyond Vicksburg. At Monterrey, he earns distinction and suffers wounds that alter his daily life. New opportunities bring public recognition, but the people who remember Menefee preserve a story that praise cannot comfortably accommodate.
Menefee had a business to run and plans for the coming spring. To those who knew him, his life means more than his place in another man's legend. As competing accounts harden into accepted history, McClung must decide what he is prepared to acknowledge-and what an honest account may cost him.
Grounded in historical correspondence and documented events, Black Knight: A Novel of Alexander Keith McClung explores the uneasy distance between a celebrated reputation and the lives caught in its wake.
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