Given the current wave in the entertainment industries of anything to do with the South, gators, moonshine, girls and so on, this book takes place in the 1950s. it's about two boys growing up in the deep south raised by their Granny and trained in the swamp by a transplanted Cajun from Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Leroy, the oldest grows up entangled in a classic struggle between two different lives. One, learning to run a large farming empire and the other being a more lucrative and darker side of the family's history. The one seeped in the illegal manufacturing of moonshine and the illegal importing of rum from countries strictly forbidden to engage in commerce with the United States. Leroy experienced all the joys and pains of young manhood and learning the cost involved in putting family above all else.