Forty years ago on a farm in Pulaski, Tennessee, five year-old Bocephus
Haynes watched in horror as his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan.
Decades later, the man who led the lynch mob is gruesomely murdered, and
Bo is the prime suspect.
A year removed from his triumphant return to the courtroom in The
Professor, Tom McMurtie now faces his greatest challenge - defending his
best friend on a charge of capital murder brought by a ruthless district
attorney determined to win at any cost. The truth lies buried in the
secrets of the past and justice hides somewhere between black and
white...