Delta Heat (The River Keeps, #1)

An old man sits behind a desk in a white house on the highest ground in the county and watches a lamp burn in a window three miles down the river road. He has been watching that lamp for forty years. Tonight, he puts it out.

He owns the bank. He owns the soybean to the east through three shell companies. He owns the judge's exhaustion and most of the men in the bottom and, by way of a called note coming due on Friday, the brother of the woman whose lamp is burning. He has, with the patience...