To what personal extremes would you go through to protect your best friend? While playing marbles, six-year old Jeffrey McCracken watches Billy Walker lose his temper and kill a young black boy. Through extreme intimidation and loyalty to his best friend, Jeffrey lies about the incident to the sheriff and then spends the next twenty-six years agonizingly seeking to make Billy accountable for his wrongdoing. Despite a series of bizarre personal setbacks and Billy's uncanny rise to political power - including becoming Mississippi's governor - Jeffrey accomplishes his quest for redemption by aiding in Billy's arrest for years of racially motivated crimes. The Cat's Eye is a pressure cooker story about Jeffrey's persistent drive to reclaim his dignity. Set in a racially volatile era, the story evokes the rural south, but at its core, it's about the incomparable influence love and true friendships play in each of our lives