Ninie Hammon
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Paperback | 335 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9799035-6-4
Summary
When Sarabeth Bingham’s father is murdered, she leaves the LA Times to take over his weekly newspaper in central Kentucky and discovers that marijuana-growing has corrupted the idyllic little community where she grew up. The Christian sheriff can’t get a marijuana conviction because the county’s jury pool is tainted. Her cousin grows weed and has lost his daughter to the world of drugs. After three children find dope money in an abandoned building and the dopers kidnap them to get it back, Sarabeth heeds the words on a plaque above her father’s desk: “Don’t mess with a man who buys ink by the barrel.” The next issue of the newspaper carries a front-page editorial: There is a mammoth marijuana-growing industry in this county, folks, and don’t tell me you didn’t know it. You’ve seen it lurking in the shadows for years. What you may not have figured out yet is that marijuana’s easy money breeds greed and evil like a fly breeds maggots, and one of these days it’s going to reach out and bite your family. But you don’t have to wait until your son gets busted in a dope barn and vanishes into a mandatory 20-year prison term, or your uncle loses his farm because police found dope on the back 40, or you get attacked in the woods by a savage Rottweiler with a sliced larynx. You can fight back now. Right now! Look around you. Call the sheriff and report what you see. Testify in court. Indict. Convict! Stand up to the dopers and tell them you want your community back. The newspaper has declared war on dope; the growers have to shut Sarabeth up. And dopers fight dirty.
Ninie Hammon is the consummate story-teller. Her first book, the biography God Said Yes, was published by Penguin’s Berkeley imprint and highlighted her gift for weaving facts into a gripping human-interest saga. She draws on the stories from a quarter of a century’s career as a journalist to fuel her novels. As an investigative reporter in the 1980s, she helped break the story of the Corn Bread Mafia - the largest domestic marijuana-producing cooperative in American history. The founder of a 65,000-readership newspaper, she served as its publisher for a decade and enjoys a large fan base in the Southeast.
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