Joe Pepper Elmer Kelton
I can't say I've wasted much time regretting the things I've done. My main regret has been over some men I didn't shoot when I had the chance. So says Joe Pepper, a Texas bad man with a past. There aren't many things he hasn't done in forty years of living on both sides of the law, except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, he is about to have that privilege. But before he hangs, he wants to tell his story and set the record straight.