Description
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of each stripe. In From Middle of the night to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.
In addition to bank robbers–most often the dumbest criminals–Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, secure witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and the ones defendants who had a certain roguish charm. A couple of of his defendants and sufferers have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of essentially the most successful bank robbery gang of the 20th century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no person else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.