"The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay." (Traditions of Devonshire, Nursery Rhyme, 1883) He brooked no insult, would not be cheated, would not be pushed around.
Ron and his wife Patsy make their home in Pinehurst, North Carolina..
He is the author of three works of non-fiction and four novels.
About author(s): Ron Rhody has been a reporter, a sportswriter, a broadcast newsman, and covered the Kentucky Legislature before moving on to a career as a corporate public relations executive in New York and San Francisco.
Whatever you ultimately decide about JF\'s place on that scale - and the particulars of his death - you won\'t be bored.
It is rich in action and drama, most particularly for readers drawn to the mystery of why men do the things they do, and to the never ending struggle between good and evil.
This is the first piece of fiction built around the man and the place.
John Fallis, Craw, Crawfish Bottom are names that still resonate and questions about his death are still unanswered.
Though this is a story, not a history, most of it happened.
The story begins just before the night of the The Big Shoot-Out when JF takes on the entire city police force and ends with his bullet-riddled body on a craps table in Craw in what was said to be a gambling fight - but what many believe was a hit ordered by powerful forces in the city.
A successful businessman, a political power, a gambler, a bootlegger, movie-star handsome, and charismatically compelling, John Fallis was the champion of the poor and powerless and the scourge of the Establishment.
It spins around John Fallis, a legendary figure in Bluegrass folklore, and two boys who fall into his orbit.
The story is set in the Roaring Twenties in Kentucky\'s Capital City.
He was the King of Craw and the powers-that-be wanted him gone.
He bent a knee to no man. "The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay." (Traditions of Devonshire, Nursery Rhyme, 1883) He brooked no insult, would not be cheated, would not be pushed around
