Gallows Reckoning: a Tale of an Infamous Bandit in the American Southwest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647380953)

Sheriff Bacot, while tending his condemned prisoner, Bill Campbell's last days, in rural south Mississippi in 1852, records Scot-free 20 years of the outlaw's scandalous life and now, his sworn, deathbed confession. Campbell confesses to 13 unsolved murders, a myriad of other crimes and secret ties to a plethora of state politicians, judges and crooked attorneys. However, upon learning of the 14th murder, the one which Campbell is to hang in a scant few hours, Bacot becomes convinced of the outlaw's innocence. Adding a wrongful hanging to Campbell's cooperation and naming of important names, Bacot could clean out a nest of state-wide corruption. Alone with this knowledge, Sheriff Bacot quickly must decide to attempt and set the record straight or let fate finish what law enforcement, over four states, couldn't accomplish over two decades.