Book description
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey.
Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic
beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all,
a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom
wants nothing more than to please this rough, distant man.
Then a preacher comes to the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
to rid Bad Camp Hollow of the "evils of liquor." This is
when Tom and his father begin their campaign to match wits with the
preacher and try to outsmart the law officers he calls in. Tom's
father is eloquent in defense of a way of life long and respectfully
lived by the Higgins family. But the preacher and his pretty daughter
make a powerful case against it. And when drink causes a tragedy in
the community, Tom Higgins is torn....
