Main Characters

At 12, Clyde watched his Choctaw father die at the hands of a man the law never touched. Twenty years later, he’s sheriff of Tecumseh County, Mississippi, and the killer is back.

A billionaire who hopes to suppress the ideological furies sweeping the nation. Rose, Mississippi, is his hometown — and his past is buried there.

The brutal thug Clyde suspects of murdering his father. Now he’s killing for a cause, and he enjoys it.

An old man on fire with his hideous beliefs, determined to impose a tyranny that will exterminate nonbelievers.

Clyde’s first love in a town that will not tolerate a white woman loving a Choctaw man. When the killing starts, she’s the one person he can trust.

A fearless eight-year-old boy hiding in the wilderness, carrying a secret that can stop the looming catastrophe.