| From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi Contributor(s): Hailman, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496802594 ISBN-13: 9781496802590 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges |
| Dewey: 364.109 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.48" W x 8.78" (1.55 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank robbers--generally the dumbest criminals--Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the twentieth century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hailman, John: - John Hailman, Oxford, Mississippi, was a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's office in Oxford for thirty-three years, was an inaugural Overby Fellow in journalism, and is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Thomas Jefferson on Wine and The Search for Good Wine, both from University Press of Mississippi. |