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A Rainy Night in Georgia|J. Tom Morgan

A Rainy Night in Georgia : A Lawman's Brutal Murder, a Rogue Southern Sheriff, and a Prosecutor's Quest for Justice

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"A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." --J.Tom Morgan

In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform--promising to clean up corruption and restore integrity to the sheriff's department--defeating the powerful incumbent in a bitter runoff.

The case fell to J.Tom Morgan, then the county's elected District Attorney. Working alongside local, state, and federal law enforcement, Morgan pursued the case through months of dead ends, mounting pressure, and intense public scrutiny. It became a national media sensation, combining political intrigue with revelations of government corruption, murder-for-hire plots, and a never-before-tried legal strategy in the Georgia criminal justice system. Then the case became personal: Morgan learned that his own name was next on the killer's hit list.

In A Rainy Night in Georgia, Morgan gives readers something almost no one else can--a first-person account of power, danger, and integrity from inside the justice system. What began as a baffling, unsolved murder evolved into one of the most extraordinary political assassination cases in modern American history after a shocking discovery.

Part true-crime thriller, part memoir of public service under fire, this gripping book reveals what it truly costs to hold powerful people accountable.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781493094837
  • ISBN-10: 1493094831
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
  • Publish Date: September 2026
  • Shipping Weight: 0.47 pounds
  • Page Count: 264

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