Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the Church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. What turned Pete from a pillar of the community into cold-hearted killer? The electrifying new novel from bestselling author John Grisham.