Remberton

Remberton a small Alabama town is the setting for this 1970s story of class change divided love death honor and dishonor and a lawyer's commitment to the law. A shocking chain of revelations is set in motion when tenant farmer's son Jesse Rooter comes back after thirty years now a multi-millionaire. Embittered over having been treated by the town in his youth as a nobody he is bent on revenge but a strange kind of revenge. While there he begins to suspect that the long-ago drowning of his hell-raising brother was not accidental. To investigate he engages Noble Shepperson the town's leading lawyer. Scandalous facts come to light implicating prominent citizens. But even darker secrets emerge in their wake. Along the way Noble Shepperson is torn by romantic entanglements with both a local divorcee and an English woman he met during World War II. In the end Jesse's revenge and Noble's conflicted love are resolved with surprising twists.</P>