Southern Cross — Stephen Greenleaf

The past is never truly buried, or even dead. That's what John Marshall Tanner discovers at his twenty-fifth college reunion when he meets an old friend whose past has come back to haunt him with a vengeance. In the summer of '66. Seth Hartman had gone south to fight for civil rights. Now the prominent attorney-at-law is receiving death threats signed by a venomous white supremacist organization that has branded him a traitor to his race.

Just who is behind the Alliance for Southern Pride, and why after all these years has Seth become their target? These are the questions that send Tanner to South Carolina, where a show of Southern hospitality can't hide the racial wounds that still fester there, and where Tanner soon finds Seth surrounded by enemies--some shockingly close to home. But when Tanner goes undercover as a Nazi wannabe, the answers he uncovers are more than unexpected--they're the kind that could get a Yankee P.I. killed.