Lightfoot's Revenge

About the Book

A young boy goes from "rags to riches" when he leaves a sharecropper farm with the beautiful female landlord to attend school in a small Mississippi town. With the help of two friends and an alcoholic Judge the boys become successful making and distributing moonshine whiskey. At the age of 16 the boys own a lumber mill, dozens of oil wells, 3 farms and managed to steal a half a million dollars from a local bank.

As the boys matured they became interested in the young girls in this small town, not aware that these girls were also the offspring of the Indian "Lightfoot" who lived in Alabama. Many years had passed since the pig farmer from Mississippi had come to Alabama and taken Lightfoot's wife and claimed her as his property. Lightfoot vowed he'd get revenge on all the white men in this small Mississippi town and be enjoying himself in the process.

About the Author

Virgil Odom was born in 1936 on a sharecropper's farm in Mississippi. In 1955 he decided to "jump ship" and leave the sharecropper's farm and headed for Houston Texas where he enlisted in the Navy.

Odom served 20 years in the Navy aboard various types of ships; a year in Kodiak Alaska, three years in the Philippines, a one-year tour in Vietnam with the Brown River Navy (River Patrol Boats).

In Oct. 1969 Odom attended the Naval Mine Warfare School in Charleston, SC and returned to Vietnam aboard a Minesweeper.

Odom retired as a Chief Engineman in March 1975 at FMAG Mayport FL and moved to Fargo, GA.

His hobby is woodworking.