{"product_id":"the-shooter-at-midnight-murder-corruption-and-a-farming-town-divided-9780143135449","title":"The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Gripping . . . A potent account of the crime and its aftermath, placing its story of heartbreaking violence and injustice in a larger portrait of a rural American town.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff's office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didn't commit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a surprising, dramatic narrative that spans decades, Mark's family turns to Robert Ramsey, an attorney willing to take on a corrupt political machine suppressing the truth. But the community's way of life is irrevocably damaged by the parallel tragedies of the farming crisis and Cathy's unsolved murder, in a gripping story about the fault-lines of a fracturing America that continue to cut across the farm belt today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSean Patrick Cooper is a journalist who has contributed narrative features and essays to \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, n+1, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Baffler, Tablet, UnDark, The Atavist, The Daily Beast, Victory Journal, The Awl\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He received an MA in journalism at New York University, where he was a Department Fellow in the Literary Reportage Program, and a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University. This is his first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598788071698,"sku":"9780143135449","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e143368-2604-4c29-b346-8d1f6da76214.jpg?v=1732191098","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shooter-at-midnight-murder-corruption-and-a-farming-town-divided-9780143135449","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}