The moonshine messiah - russell w. johnson

As if being a woman sheriff in the West Virginia coal fields wasnt tough enough, Mary Beth Cains life is complicated by the fact that the local hillbilly crime syndicate is run by her mother, Mamie.

Its an association that, along with Mary Beths head-busting ways, has her staring down a corruption investigation when she gets a surprise visit from Assistant U.

Attorney Patrick Connelly.

Twenty years earlier, Patrick was Mary Beths high school sweetheart, but they broke up because Mary Beth couldnt cut the loose ties she maintains with her villainous family.

Now Patricks worked out a deal to wipe Mary Beths slate clean if shell just do one thing: arrest her brother, Sawyer, who is the cult leader of a booming anti-government militia thats been giving the Feds headaches.

Its an offer Mary Beth refuses until Sawyers followers blow up a federal courthouse and G-men start swarming into town, preparing for a siege of the commandos compound.

Suddenly Mary Beth is tasked with trying to head off a bloody, Waco-style massacre and the question isnt whether she should arrest her brother, but if she can do it in time.

Praise for The Moonshine Messiah Like the illegitimate child of Justified and Sons of Anarchy, The Moonshine Messiah leaps off the page with a rarified air of gritty, hillbilly realism.

-Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Series Russell Johnson hits the ground running with a novel so explosive you might not be allowed on a plane with it.

Appalachian sheriff Mary Beth Cain heads up a cast of characters so well-rounded, they might well have been written by Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard or Ace Atkins.

-Eryk Pruitt, author of Something Bad Wrong Russell Johnson performs an incredible magic trick with The Moonshine Messiah, pivoting between laughs, thrills, and tugs on the heartstrings just as fast as you can turn the pages.

Everyone will find something to love in this unforgettable debut.

Hetherton, author of Last Girl Gone The Moonshine Messiah engages the current sociopolitical conversation without skimping on the action.

An array of distinctive characters-including a remarkable female lead-lock horns in a fraught family dynamic with the potential for national and personal consequences.

The Moonshine Messiah will leave readers eager to see where Johnson takes his talents next.

-Bill Floyd, author of The Killers Wife Russell Johnson really brings the heat with his debut Southern mystery, The Moonshine Messiah.

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