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Savannah Rum Runners
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The tide is rising, the federal noose is tightening, and the Free State of Chatham is about to go deep into the mud.
In the sweltering, salt-crusted heat of 1930s Georgia, the city of Savannah belongs to those who know the river's secrets. While the rest of the country suffers under the weight of the Great Depression, a shadow economy thrives in the labyrinthine creeks of the Lowcountry. At the center of it all are the Smith brothers-men of grit and mechanical genius who have turned the treacherous Ogeechee marshes into a private fortress.
To the locals, they are folk heroes. To the federal government, they are the Ghosts of River Street-phantom bootleggers who outrun every cutter and outsmart every roadblock in their custom-built, light-absorbing gray mud-sleds. But the era of the gentleman runner is coming to a violent end.
From the high-rises of the north, the ruthless Atlanta Syndicate has set its sights on the Georgia coast. They don't just want the territory; they want to flood the streets with lethal, low-grade rot-gut and eliminate anyone who stands in their way. Simultaneously, the Department of Justice has unleashed Agent Vance-a cold, calculated tactician who has made it his life's mission to see the Smith name struck from the history books.
When a brutal betrayal leaves their foundry in ashes and their legendary Ghost submerged in the blackwater, the brothers are forced to retreat into the Inner Sanctum-a subterranean world of limestone caves and lime-sink vaults hidden deep within the cypress swamps. It is here, in the suffocating dark of the Ogeechee, that a three-way war erupts between the law, the mob, and a family that refuses to break.
Richard M. Eunice delivers a haunting, masterfully atmospheric journey into a forgotten era of Southern rebellion. Savannah Rum Runners is more than a crime thriller; it is a story of blood loyalty, the burden of a legacy, and the high price of freedom in a land that remembers everything.
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