The Cruelest Lie

This novel is richly peopled with characters who work in concert with or against Gilbow Brown the unscrupulous sheriff who uses the law as a device to fuel his insatiable appetite for money and corrupt power. No character emerges more impressively than Bo's mother Ruby. When advised by her lover Bill Ray Bordelon that Sheriff Brown is going to destroy her son she involves herself in a deadly struggle that plays her beauty and cunning off against the unmitigated corruption and brute strength of the sheriff. A struggle from which only one can emerge alive and victorious. is the story of a savage way of life that spawns injustice and intransigence unique to the place called the south. A way of life that compels the telling of the lies that lead to the cruelest lie which is always told in silence