Hell at the Breech

Tom Franklin

earliest edition we have, 2003 Harper Perennial, 2003 paperback 368 pages

In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- -mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstr...

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Hell at the Breech ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061359521
Hell at the Breech paperback · 2003 · Harper Perennial · 368 pages · 9780060566760
Hell at the breech edition · 2003 · William Morrow · 320 pages

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