While Yaloquena County District Attorney Willie Mitchell Banks is in the middle of a nasty re-election campaign, a seven-year-old boy goes missing from a political rally in the Mississippi Delta on the Fourth of July. In spite of the unsuccessful search for the boy's body, Willie Mitchell tries local banker Ross Bullard for capital murder. Without a body, success in Willie Mitchell's murder case appears doubtful. So does his re-election.
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