Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, and the inspiration for the major motion picture Lawless, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during the Prohibition and the years after. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there he christened it the "wettest county in the world." Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads, piecing together the clues linking the brothers to "The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy," and breaking open the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
- Paperback
- 312 pages