The #1 New York Times BestsellerGoodReads Choice Award semi finalist, Amazon Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2017 selectionThe final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles“Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This is an amazing work … start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This is an amazing work of popular fiction.”
— Stephen King
“One of the longest, most successful sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory… Prepare to be surprised. Iles has always been an exceptional storyteller, and he has invested these volumes with an energy and sense of personal urgency that rarely, if ever, falter.”
— Washington Post
The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present.
Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn’s experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations–preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son.
During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. It is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son–Penn’s half-brother–who sets in motion the murder case against his father. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi’s violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave.
Unable to trust anyone around him–not even his own mother–Penn joins forces with Serenity Butler, a famous young black author who has come to Natchez to write about his father’s case. Together, Penn and Serenity battle to crack the Double Eagles and discover the secret history of the Cage family and the South itself, a desperate move that risks the only thing they have left to gamble: their lives.
Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making–one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited.
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Have read all of Iles books. Not your type p iCal topics and very well written nevertheless. Am always awaiting his next story with great anticipation.
I have enjoyed this whole series of books by Greg Iles. He never disappoints.
Good book, easy reading, exciting all throughout. Good summertime read.
I have loved all of this author’s books but the trilogy [this is book3] has been exceptional.
This is the best Greg Iles book I’ve ever read….so many twists, turns, and such a strong finish .
I very much enjoyed this book as I have all of Greg Iles book. I couldn’t put it down because the plot is so well developeloped as are the characters!
With characters so deep and well articulated, the Greg Iles “Natchez Burning” series is an intricately woven, deeply involving page turner. From one novel to the next, with tentacles reaching backward and forward, no reader can possibly put this series down. I only wish I could go back and read the entire series from beginning to end.
A great book from an extremely talented writer. The story of the Cage family reminds me of Jeffery Archer Clifton series. Its a shame this is the last of the series.
perfect end to a great trilogy.
Mr. Iles never misses a chance to hold your interest. Many social issues are explored, and as a ongoing series with the same characters, hold interest until the last page. I’ll look forward to his next book.
Great book and great author. I’m currently reading his newest book.
Very disappointing after reading the first two volumes of the trilogy. Penn Cage seemed to be going through the motions without the passion for justice that he had in the earlier books. Peggy was just another “stand by your man” wife just because it was the right thing to do. I didn’t get any feeling of a deepnlove between them. The Kennedy assassination story was drooped. All in all, it was a very disappointing sequel.
Greg Iles is a fabulous writer. He pulls you in and keeps you hanging.