NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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Growing up in the rural Southern
hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows
about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved
family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet
Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the
early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is
determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking
doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense.
The quest for answers sends Penn
deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder
involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the
wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local
friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez's oldest and deadliest
secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to
one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or
not—is ever truly safe.
With everything on the line,
including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect
those he loves . . . and see justice done, once and for all.
Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning
marks the brilliant return of a genuine American master of suspense.
Tense and disturbing, it is the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and
ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.
