Biloxi, Mississippi, is a city of contradictions. A lush green
jewel on the Gulf of Mexico, a Southern Riviera steeped in
Confederate history, where antebellum mansions command staggering
ocean views. Yet it has also been home to The Strip, a beachside
center of neon decadence, prostitution, drugs, and corrupt public
servants - all in thrall to a shadowy band of criminals called the
Dixie Mafia. Here in Biloxi, Old South virtue clashes with a
long-standing tolerance for evil. When one of the city's most
prominent couples - a judge and his mayoral-candidate wife - were
shot in their home, their daughter embarked on a dangerous crusade
for justice that would forever change the complexion of Biloxi. She
wanted to accomplish what the police could not or would not do:
find the assassins and shake the city of Biloxi from its jaded
complacency. In Mississippi Mud, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Edward Humes tells the inspiring and harrowing story of Lynne
Sposito, whose obsession with solving her parents' murder
"irresistibly draws us into a ripe, teeming, darkness, " into a
sin-belt world of conscienceless killers, illegal casinos, and
venal politicians. At the same time, Mississippi Mud provides a
fascinating and vivid portrait of a little-known corner of the Deep
South where corruption and betrayal arise not only from the
criminal element but also from the good people of Biloxi's
long-standing tradition of turning a blind eye to the malignancy in
their midst. Though a work of nonfiction, scrupulously reported and
documented, Mississippi Mud reads like an exquisitely taut and
suspenseful novel, building toward a surprising - and chilling -
conclusion, as the forces unleashed by Lynne'sinvestigation forever
alter her life, and Biloxi's future.
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