Reverend Devil: Master Criminal of the Old South

The narrative is true, documented research and easy reading. -Irving Ward-Steinman

In many parts of the South and the Southwest today, they still speak in quiet awe of the intrepid John Murrel-highwayman, bandit, cutthroat, and slaver who spread organized terror through dozens of early nineteenth-century towns.

From Tennessee and Arkansas to Georgia eastward, and to the Mexican border westwa...