The #1 New York Times Bestseller
GoodReads Choice Award semi finalist, Amazon Best Mysteries &
Thrillers of 2017 selection
The 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 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
her, 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 her 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 her. The resulting investigation exhumes
dangerous ghosts from Mississippi's violent past. In some way
that Penn cannot hom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between
his her 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 her'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 in, 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.