The author put too much in this book. It was extremely long. Besides the main plot/story he spent much too much rime on a Kennedy assassination plot. That could have been a separate book. I appreciated the accurate ways in which he captures Mississippi’s and Louisiana’s history of racism and corruption. What I did not like it that he kept the audience hanging at the end regarding a major issue. As far as I know there is no room in a later book for this issue to be addressed. There were several loose ends at the end of the book. had it not been for these issues I would have rated the book as a 5.