‘One of the greatest crime writers at work today.’-Michael Connelly The electrifying new novel in NY Times-bestselling writer Ace Atkins’s acclaimed series on the subject of the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is certainly jobless-voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah State, Mississippi, because of the machinations of state kingpin Johnny Stagg. He provides offers, in bigger and better areas, but before he goes, he’s got one more work to do-bring down Stagg’s legal about The Redeemers procedures once and for all. At least that is the plan. But in the middle of the long, hot summer, a trio of bad guys stage a vibrant, wall-smashing break-in at the home of a local lumber mill owner, producing off with a million dollars in cash from his safe, which is curious, because the mill owner is normally wealthy-but not really that wealthy. None of this provides anything regarding Colson, but through the investigation, two males are killed, one of these the new sheriff. His friend, performing sheriff Lillie Virgil, and a dangerous former flame, Anna Lee Stevens, both ask him to part of, and reluctantly he does, only to find that that secure contained a lot more than just money-it kept secrets. Secrets that could either conserve Colson-or destroy him forever.