<p><b><i>Sunday Times</i> No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet.</b><br><br>''As ever with Grisham there are corkscrew twists and turns as he ratchets up the suspense. It is <b>exceptional story-telling, which leaves the reader begging for the novel never to end. Grisham has sold more than 300 million copies of his work. This shows exactly why'' <i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br><br>For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs . . . even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumoured to be members of the Dixie Mafia.<br><br>Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith''s father became a legendary prose