The old saying goes: “There is no greater fiction than the truth.” This fully applies to the book by J. Behrendt, which became a real sensation immediately after its publication. Today, this book has been adapted into a play on Broadway, which has received five Oscars. Apparently, the same fate awaits the film of the same name, shot by the famous Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood.

Apparently the author himself, who writes a regular column in Esquire magazine, could not have foreseen such a success of his book , which has already sold tens of millions of copies and continues to be among the bestsellers.

John Behrendt's novel “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” may, at first glance, seem like just a mosaic of exquisite short story fragments from the life of a conservative American town of Savannah. Life, flowing along a constant course from time immemorial, if one can even talk about the short history of the United States. Imperceptibly, gradually, this novel about human destinies appears before us like a giant canvas on which events unfold that signify the unity and struggle of opposites: good and evil.