A collection of short stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County, deep  in the heart of America’s Deep South. A mercy mission that is hilariously sidetracked by human weakness; a manipulative death-row inmate with one last plea; a small-time divorce attorney who suddenly hits pay-dirt; a man sets out to break a casino to revenge a broken heart; a kidnapped lawyer is confronted with one of his previous cases at gun point; a conman preys on the rich and elderly; and a boy dying of AIDS finds mercy across the tracks in downtown Clanton. Moving, hilarious and always entertaining.