By Margaret Anne Barnes

In the first chronological narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of how economic hard times in the Depression led a mayor to barter immunity from prosecution to gamblers and gangsters in exchange for money to save the town from going into receivership. By mid-century the criminal element managed to buy or infiltrate every office of government in the city. When their control was absolute, no crime was beyond their commission, no citizen safe, and no constitutional right could be relied upon.

Margaret Anne Barnes is the award winning author of A Buzzard is My Best Friend and Murder in Coweta County, which went on to be released as a CBS Made for Television Movie-of-the-Week starring Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash.

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