Anti-racism thriller—by a lawyer who got his real-life client off death row—about an attorney who did not. “Riveting. Strikingly illuminates our tortured racial past—and its legacy.” – Pulitzer-Prize winner Eric Foner “Enthralling. Family saga, freedom song and cry for justice.” – Legendary civil rights hero Diane Nash “Punches the reader in the guts. Deeply disturbing yet also revelatory.” – Los Angeles Review of Books “Powerful. History wends through it. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The “heart-pounding, soul-wrenching” story of a tortured man’s quest to right the scales of justice—by assassinating KKK murderers. After seeing his client die in the gas chamber, attorney Gideon Roth is shattered. His old life collapses as he is overcome with guilt and despair. But soon he finds new purpose: he will drive to Mississippi to revisit the scenes of his youth—and to slay the men who got away with murdering civil rights workers 30 years earlier. Can a Mississippi police chief intercept a would-be assassin without knowing his name, appearance, age, race or even the sound of his voice? Can Gideon be turned from his quest by his encounters along the way? “Links the story of a condemned man in present-day California with the story of deep-southern horror from which that man emerged. Heart-pounding. Soul-wrenching.” – Civil rights pioneer Judge Thelton Henderson “Riveting.” – Kirkus Reviews. "In Mississippi Reckoning Mitchell Zimmerman punches the reader in the guts with intersecting stories of terrible violence . . . The novel is gripping and harrowing , . . . deeply disturbing yet also revelatory . . . . This is an author who knows the landscape of American racial horror, a survivor who brings his own experience and emotions to bear in exceptional prose ." - Los Angeles Review of Books " Riveting . . . A stirring, well-constructed stor y that follows a tortured man's moral progress." - Kirkus Reviews "A powerful novel that derives most of its juice from the history it wends through and around. ... Mississippi Reckoning is affecting and highly readable as it commingles fact and invention in artful ways. ... Puts me in mind of James Ellroy's Los Angeles novels. Mississippi Reckoning , while a work of fiction, also feels like a means of keeping faith." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette " Gripping, wonderful story-telling ... Mitchell Zimmerman has given us a brilliant and heart-rending novel. ... Family saga, freedom song and cry for justice come together in Mississippi Reckoning , as a despairing man seeks vengeance for wrongs beyond his power to right." - Diane Nash, civil rights leader, Freedom Rider, SNCC founder " A heart-pounding, soul-wrenching narrative, in which the evils of a bygone era remain invisibly amongst us-shadows of past suffering, fostering the cruelest tragedies of today." - Thelton Henderson, Federal Judge, civil rights pioneer "A powerful book! Mississippi Reckoning takes you on a trip that will leave you reeling--and thinking." - Mike Farrell, star of M*A*S*H " Mississippi Reckoning 's road trip is a suspense-filled journey well worth following to its ending." - The Champion Mitchell Zimmerman is a California attorney who got his client off San Quentin's death row after a 22-year legal struggle. He was honored as an "Attorney of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his pro bono death penalty work. Mitchell, long a copyright and high technology lawyer with a Silicon Valley law firm, has for many years been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, deemed a Northern California Super Lawyer and rated as "Preeminent" by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. In the 1960s, Mitchell was a civil rights worker with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi, fighting for voting rights for African Americans and against segregation. Mitchell was co-author of the anti-Vietnam-war work, Dr. Spock on Vietnam (Dell 1968), which was translated into four languages.