Mississippi Reckoning

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By Mitchell Zimmerman *65

Published Oct. 10, 2019

In Mississippi Reckoning (Hunts Point Press) by Mitchell Zimmerman *65, attorney Gideon Roth watches his life collapse after he sees a client die in the gas chamber. Roth rebuilds his life with a newfound mission for vengeance: His first course of action is to return to his home in Mississippi to assassinate members of the KKK that had killed civil-rights workers 30 years before. 

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