Moonshine Memories

by Thomas R. Allison

For 25 years, Tom Allison was a revenuer, a federal agent charged with enforcement of the nation’s laws on taxation of liquor. His territory was the hills, hollows and deep woods of Alabama, and his quarry was the illegal whiskey makers. Allison remembers the stake-outs in the brush, the undercover assignments, the long waits to catch the distillery operators red-handed, and, of course, the chases as he and his fellow treasury agents ran down fleeing moonshiners in the dark of night. While Allison is a natural story-teller, the characters who populate this history are too strange to be fiction. Perhaps the only thing more striking than the ignorance of many of the moonshiners is the craftiness of some others.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. Mr Allison is a great storyteller and had an amazing career as an ATF agent. I read some of his stories to my husband and we just laughed at his adventures. He wrote this for his grandchildren. What a legacy to leave them. Loved it