"Former associate attorney general of the United States and political insider Webb Hubbell masterfully evokes the terrors of a hot, black Southern night—one can practically smell the sweat, hickory, and gunpowder emanating from the book's pages." — Ellen Ratner After a shocking assassination of a senator on live TV by an unlikely suspect, attorney Jack Patterson reluctantly returns to Little Rock, a town that he swore he would never step foot in again to uncover the motives of the killer. Jack and his ragtag team set off on a race against time to unveil the answers left in a series of strange clues while hired hitmen stand in their way of learning the truth, and the one man who knows everything refuses to talk. When Men Betray introduces readers into the steamy underbelly of Jack Patterson's world—full of secrets and betrayals underneath the facade of southern BBQ and antebellum. Alliances are tested, buried tensions surface, and painful memories are re-lived as Jack desperately tries to clear the name of an old friend, ultimately realizing that even the oldest friendships can be threatened, when men betray.