Boll Weevil

In this "highly engaging and thoroughly absorbing courtroom drama" (Reader'sFavorite.com), a brash young lawyer returns to his rural South Georgia hometown to seek the highest political office in the country.  To win, he must first confront his own misapprehension of a society from which he has long been separated.  Second, he must overcome the brutal, desperate means deployed by those in power to maintain their hold.