The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie (Crown, October 19, 2010)
“[Ed] Peters was seventy. His hair, which had grown gray years before, had now gone white and wispy. He was growing deaf and suffering from a cold . . . Though known as the chief fixer of Hinds County, he did not appear very menacing. He merely looked old and harmless . . .”
“[Steve] Patterson appealed to his old friend [Ed Peters] to help him in the case involving the bribe to Judge Lackey. Peters said he would like to help. After forty-five minutes of rambling conversation, [Joey] Langston and Patterson rose to leave.”
“Peters looked at his guests. ‘Boys,’ he said, ‘I’d cut my own throat for you.’ Then he made a slashing gesture across his neck with his hand.”
“Instead of protecting his old friends, Peters and his attorney, Cynthia Stewart, began meeting with federal authorities in Oxford . . . He was prepared to make a ‘Rule 11 proffer,’ in which he would tell all that he knew of the maneuvering with Judge DeLaughter in exchange for an agreement not to bring charges against him.” (265)
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