

In the next six weeks, the Chandlers and a hired band of hill people and Mexicans must bring in the cotton that is their livelihood and the guarantee of their survival on the land. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land.

The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. A PAINTED HOUSE The land is as unforgiving as its people. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren.

THE BRETHREN The perfect scam: the wrong victim. Book Summary of The Brethren And A Painted House.
