The Sweet and the Dead

Fresh off the tremendous acclaim for his first novel, "The Rogue's Game", Milton T. Burton now follows in the footsteps of James Lee Burke to tell us the story of Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas deputy sheriff. Burton entrances readers as Webern goes undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, to nail a group of Southern criminals who have been tagged with the lurid name "Dixie Mafia." After making contact with the gang's leader, the notorious I Jasper Sparks, Webern begins to worm his way into the group's confidence. He also becomes involved with the mysterious Nell Bigelow, a former prosecutor whose daddy owns half the Delta. Acquiring the gang's trust, Webern soon learns the score they plan and is drawn into a crime that threatens to engulf him. Before the final curtain falls on "The Sweet And The Dead", we learn that in the murky world of Southern professional crime, nothing is ever quite what it seems to be.