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From the 2017 success of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely tale of contest, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today's headlines. When the body of Jamal Cousin, chief executive of the pre-eminent dark-colored fraternity at the Florida's flagship university or college, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death cause a firestorm that threatens to trend out of control when a fellow student, Symbol Towson, the chief executive of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Townson's defense attorney at law, Jack Swyteck, recognizes that the stakes could not be higher - inside or outside the old Suwanee State Couthouse. The data against his customer, with a threatening text message referencing "strange berries" on the river, seems mind-boggling. Then Jack gets a break that could change the case. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to some other lynching that happened back the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels strictly coincidental? Using a community in chaos and a young man's life in jeopardy, Jack use every resource to learn. As he navigates each twist and move of the search, Jack becomes increasingly convinced that his customer may himself be the victim of a criminal plan more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney at law. Risking his own reputation, this principled man who have dedicated his life to the law plunges headfirst in to the darkest recesses of the South's past, and its own murky present, to discover answers. For Jack, it's about the reality. Traversing time, from the days of demanding segregation for this, he'll think it is - no matter what the cost - and bring much-needed justice to Suwanee State.
