The Moonshine War (62)

The Moonshine War
Elmore Leonard

This was set in the 1930s in southern KY. Where bootlegging is a way of life, even during prohibition. The story revolves around one man who lost his mother and wife to influenza while he was away fighting in WWI. I returns home and his father dies shortly after. His daddy an old bootlegger is reported to have put up 150 barrels of whiskey to age for 8 years.. and the time is almost up.. Greed sets in as everybody wants the whiskey.
The story becomes a familiar Leonard plot line.. it reminded me a lot of The Hunted. Out numbered and overwhelmed the siege sets in.
A very typical Leonard ending.. very fast and leaving the reader to assume how certain things work out.. I love endings like this.. because it is always as you want it :)