

“Two men with nothing in common but the hate that surrounds them.”
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
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African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Bengy Springer
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