Deadly Sacrifice

By Jack Kean

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188547878X
• ISBN13: 9781885478788
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Genesis Pr Inc
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent regional mystery

In rural Mississippi, attorney Vernon King enjoys his laidback lifestyle that enables him to lie in his hammock on most afternoons. However, Vernon's idyllic life is disturbed when arson destroy a nearby black church. The Feds, state, and local officials are all over the place trying to determine whether a hate crime was committed. The FBI interviewed Vernon twice during the two-week investigation. Vernon's life becomes more complicated when the Feds arrest his neighbor dairy farmer Bill Wall for committing the crimes. However, the worst charge turns out to be murder as the body of a two-year old was found in the rubble. Bill hires Vernon to serve as his attorney. As Vernon struggles with a hostile media, ugly mobs, and the judicial system looking for an easy target, he also feels under confident as federal law differs from his area of expertise, Mississippi state law. DEADLY SACRIFICE is an exciting regional legal thriller that will please sub-genre fans. The story line is very entertaining though at times Vernon pontificates about outside influence hurting the New South. Still, he is a warm, down home individual, and the support cast, for the most part, are fully developed people who bring the region to life. Jack Kean provides a superb tale that will give pleasure to sub-genre fans.Harriet Klausner

Don't pick it up if you plan to put it down!

A tale of murder, friendship, and protective family ties, this straight-forward, no words wasted, novel set in Purdy, Mississippi leaves the reader wondering just "who done it" and why! A border-line racist theme does not dimish the story of plodding lawyer, Vernon King, more loyal than astute, who goes way out on a limb for his friend, charged with the murder of an infant and the burning of a black church. An easy and enjoyable one-sitting read - especially considering that this is the first novel Jack Kean has written - you won't put it down until you turn the last page!