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  • From Midnight to Guntown

  • True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
  • Written by: John Hailman
  • Narrated by: Neal Vickers
  • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins

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From Midnight to Guntown

Written by: John Hailman
Narrated by: Neal Vickers
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Publisher's Summary

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over 30 years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.

In addition to bank robbers - generally the dumbest criminals - Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the 20th century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.

The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.

©2013 University Press of Mississippi (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks

What the critics say

"A real page-turner of a memoir which reads like a novel. John Hailman is the toughest federal prosecutor ever to hit the state of Mississippi." (Bill Minor, syndicated columnist, New Orleans Times-Picayune)
"Highly recommended for all fans of true crime stories." (Ace Atkins, best-selling crime novelist)
"The most fascinating and informative book I've read in years." (Parham Williams, dean, University of Mississippi School of Law)
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