Amazon.com description: Product Description: It's 1951, and the last place in America any sane man wishes to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm (colored) in Thebes, Mississippi. Up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods, it's the Old South at it most brutal -- a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey even fewer make it back. Two men will come to Thebes and what they encounter is beyond their wildest imaginations for evil, and the only escape is down the dark river that drowns as many as it liberates.