The Ox-Bow Incident

I think it was the London police gunning down that innocent guy in the subway that made me think of this book I read in high school (middle school?), the Ox-Bow Incident.

Of course it could have been Guantanamo, or Iraq, or the Patriot Act, or ... I gotta stop watching the news.

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned.

I remember it as a really good read. Lots of moral ambiguity.