What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

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In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- —mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four people: the aging sheriff sympathetic to both sides; the widowed midwife who delivered nearly every member of Hell-at-the-Breech; a ruthless detective who wages his own war against the gang; and a young store clerk who harbors a terrible secret.

Based on incidents that occurred a few miles from the author's childhood home, Hell at the Breech chronicles the events of dark days that led the people involved to discover their capacity for good, evil, or for both.

I'm currently reading this at the moment, I only started it the other day and whilst its good I'm struggling to get into it, I like the writing style but I'm just waiting for it to kick off a little bit and get going.

I read one of Tom Franklins other books (Smonk) and that was just a crazy clusterfuck of violence and crazy characters that wasn't very good, that was why I thought I'd give this book a go because he seems like he could be a real good author, I'll let you all know what I think of it in the end

Wow, looks like you stumbled on a bit of American history that I didn't even know about. I may have to take a look at that one myself.

To be honest I love westerns and anything set in the deep south, I've read a few books like this one, I find that I end up burning myself out after a while if I stick with them for too long

for example whilst this book was fucking brilliant it was a proper slog to get through

The lore and the legends, the lawmen and the bad men, the rise of the cattle barons and the tragic demise of the Plains Indians, the pioneers and the forty-niners, Little Big Horn and the Alamo, Calamity Jane and Crazy Horse -- from the Alleghenies to the Rockies the events that shaped the West and the people who tamed it are featured in this vivid anecdotal history, which draws upon firsthand testimony and contemporary documents to provide a compelling and comprehensive account of a land as it became a nation.