Rascal on the Run
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<B>Drawn into a web of small-town secrets, family drama, and the rusted tentacles of the Dixie Mafia, a young lawyer is forced to confront his own notions of justice, freedom, love, and sobriety.</b><BR><BR>Athens, Georgia, 1988: Attorney August Critter Stillwell dreams of a life on the open sea, but hes stuck juggling a crushing caseload after the sudden departure of his defense attorney father, Guy Stillwell. When an episode of <i>Unsolved Mysteries</i> leads to the capture of a murder suspect whos been on the run for twenty-five years, the ominous pattern of facts drags Critter into a hidden corner of Guys past.<BR><BR>In 1963, To Kill a Mockingbird was playing in local theaters, and Guy Stillwell was a lot like Atticus Finch-if Atticus had been a charming two-timer and burgeoning alcoholic. For fifteen-year-old Critter, working at his fathers law firm was a masterclass in the art of good ol boy litigating and congenial backroom deals. Guy took on the trial of the decade that summer: defending a black woman charged with the murder of a KKK thug. By the time it was over, Critters world and the sleepy town of Athens were in flames.<BR><BR>As an older, wiser Critter looks back on that fateful season, he discovers stunning connections between Guys case and his own defense of the runaway murderer. Now he must choose between his duty to the law and an unwavering loyalty to his flawed but charismatic father.<BR><BR>This vivid, sure-voiced page-turner is a compelling murder mystery and so much more. Deftly weaving together two murder cases and their subsequent trials with colorful dialogue and a generous measure of sly humor, it unpacks the personal demons of its father-and-son lawyer protagonists, and the painful history of the American South. A retired lawyer himself, Howard Scott clearly knows well the terrain he writes about-the courtroom antics, the family dramas, the blatant racism th
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