Wow! eBook
From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
Author(s): John Hailman (author) (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 416 pages
- ISBN-10: 1617038008
- ISBN-13: 9781617038006
Book Description
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.
In addition to bank robbers–generally the dumbest criminals–Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the twentieth century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
A former prosecutor’s hilarious tales of the ne’er-do-wells and knuckleheads he helped bring to justice
About the Author
John Hailman, Oxford, Mississippi, was a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oxford for thirty-three years, was an inaugural Overby Fellow in journalism, and is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Thomas Jefferson on Wine and The Search for Good Wine, both from University Press of Mississippi.
