Alabama sheriff Ellis Lovejoy is a man with problems. He's corrupt, he's getting old, his ex-wives hate him, and his chief deputy is after his job. And he's still trying to make people forget that day back in 1965 when he looked into a TV news camera and insulted Martin Luther King.But things just got worse. The sixth richest man in America just took a shotgun blast in the chest. It's Lovejoy's job to find the killer. And the body count keeps going...