A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South Audiobook

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• “Zeno Robinson is a gifted vocal artist who immerses listeners in this haunting narrative of George Dinning…Robinson smoothly delivers the carefully researched first-person accounts…with intelligence and equanimity. Montgomery gives a sincere delivery of his author’s note.”

  — AudioFile

• “Taut and tense, A Shot in the Moonlight is inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”

  — Colson Whitehead, New York Times bestselling author

• “It’s a good story, one that reveals the complicated history of the post-bellum South.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “A gripping feat of narrative nonfiction.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• As he did in his spectacular reporting on the Dozier School in Florida, Ben Montgomery excavates another hidden strand of American history. Taut and tense, A Shot in the Moonlight is inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.

  — Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

• Ben Montgomery’s masterful retelling of George Dinning’s story reminds us that history is created by ordinary people who confront wrongdoing. This is a powerful portrayal of prejudice at its most depraved, humanity at its most determined, and a judicial system that can, at its best, address injustice.  It reminds us of what to hope for in our current troubled times.

  — Lois Lowry, author of The Giver

• A Shot in the Moonlight is a searing narrative, thoroughly engrossing and timelier than ever. With remarkable journalism and meticulous research, Ben Montgomery has passionately crafted a masterwork of nonfiction.

  — Gilbert King, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove

• Ben Montgomery's A Shot in the Moonlight is a meticulously reported account that resurrects a remarkable story of race and justice that had been largely lost to history. Like so many Black Americans throughout our nation's history, George Dinning demanded justice. Unlike so many others, and after a strenuous battle that Montgomery expertly documents, he was ultimately able to secure it.

  — Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and A New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

• Ben Montgomery has unearthed and vigorously reported the traumatic and important story of a Black man who had the courage to shoot back. His storytelling and attention to time, context, and detail is nothing short of mesmerizing. This is the feat of one of the best nonfiction writers in the world today. A Shot in Moonlight is a challenge, a triumph.

  — RJ Young, author of Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns