Mississippi Blood
Penn Cage Series, Book 6
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Starred review from January 23, 2017
Both unwieldy and tightly controlled, bestseller Iles’s terrific conclusion to his Natchez Burning trilogy (after 2015’s The Bone Tree) is a sweeping story that remains intimate. The Double Eagles, a savage KKK splinter group, have declared a personal war on Penn Cage, a former prosecutor who’s now the mayor of Natchez, Miss., necessitating 24-hour security protection for him and his family. The toxic bigotry escalates as Penn’s father, Tom, once a respected physician, goes on trial for the murder of his former nurse and one-time lover, Viola Turner, an African-American who was suffering from terminal cancer. Penn teams with Serenity Butler, a famous black author who plans to write about Tom’s case. Together, they look into the secrets of the Cage family, the Double Eagles, and the South. Though a side plot about J.F.K.’s assassination stretches credibility, relentless pacing keeps the story churning, with unexpected brutality erupting on nearly every page. The trial scenes are among the most exciting ever written in the genre. Eight-city author tour. Agents: Dan Conaway and Simon Lipskar, Writers House.
January 15, 2017
Delta whodunit master Iles (The Bone Tree, 2015, etc.) brings his politically charged, timely trilogy of Mississippi murder and mayhem to a thunderous close.Life for Penn Cage is never a bowl of cherries. A bucket of blood, more like it. As this last installment in the Natchez Burning trilogy opens, he's in a bloodier mess than ever, depressed, full of bitter self-awareness: "When someone you love is murdered," he reflects, "you learn things about yourself you'd give a great deal not to know." Other questions loom. Why is his jailed father stubbornly clinging to a secret guaranteed to shake up otherwise sleepy Natchez? Now that the Klan-on-steroids villains have come under new management, what kind of awful mischief are they going to make for the place--and how do they figure in that secret, anyway? To begin to answer those questions, Iles swings full circle back into the territory of the first volume and its unlikely archive of once-forbidden, even now fraught interracial relationships; "anyone in possession of those ledgers," Penn reveals, "would never have to worry about money again, so valuable would they be as a blackmail tool." No, but there are plenty of other things to worry about, things that make the normally even-keeled Penn feel not so bad about shooting a bad guy in the back, "where I know his heart is pumping violently." Iles mostly sticks to the format of the hard-boiled procedural, though there's some nicely wrought courtroom drama here, too, with a none-too-subtle dig at a fellow Southern mysterian: "The why doesn't come into it. That's for John Grisham and the Law & Order writers to worry about." Speedboats, bullets, and floods of the red stuff fly and flow, wrapping up to a clean conclusion--though with the slightest hint of an out, in case Iles decides to stretch the trilogy into another book or two. Faulkner meets John D. MacDonald, and that's all to the good. A boisterous, spills-and-chills entertainment from start to finish.
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Starred review from January 1, 2017
Iles wraps up his massively ambitious Natchez Burning trilogy with a book that is (in keeping with its predecessors) compelling, dark, surprising, and morally ambiguous. Its hero, Penn Cage, has done things that might be considered reprehensible, but in these circumstanceshis father about to stand trial for a murder he might very well have committed; his fiancee having been recently murdered; and his family's lives in jeopardywe can understand why Penn steps outside the normal boundaries of acceptable behavior in his pursuit of the truth about his father and about the Double Eagles, a white-supremacist organization with a deep connection to the history of Mississippi and to Penn's own family. Familiarity with the first two books in the trilogy, Natchez Burning (2014) and The Bone Tree (2015), isn't a requirement herethe author has devised a very clever way of bringing readers up to speedbut, even so, there are some plot threads and references to previous events that might be missed by those jumping into the story in midstream. With these three novels, Iles has told an epic story that rips apart the modern history of Mississippi (he lives in Natchez himself), exposing a secret underbelly that, while fictional, feels real enough to have actually happened. This trilogy is destined to become a classic of literary crime fiction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
October 15, 2016
In the first two volumes of Iles's New York Times best-selling trilogy "Natchez Burning," small-town white Southern lawyer Penn Cage learned that his physician father stands accused of murdering his former African American nurse and is somehow linked to a particularly vicious branch of the KKK. With his father still refusing his assistance, Penn teams up with Serenity Butler, a high-profile African American woman in town to write a book about his father's case. With a 400,000-copy first printing.
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Starred review from December 1, 2016
Snake Knox, the most sadistic member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as the Double Eagles, has taken the helm, and will do anything to keep the truth hidden. His all-out assault on Penn Cage and his family and friends ratchets up as the murder trial of Penn's father gets underway. Desperate to save Dr. Tom Cage from being convicted of killing his former nurse, Viola Turner, Penn and soldier-turned-author Serenity Butler race to uncover witnesses. The danger for Penn and anyone connected to him intensifies to the extreme as he battles to expose the truth of the decades of atrocities committed by Snake and the Double Eagles. Flowing throughout, the courage and bravery of those who encounter violence born of racial intolerance is continuously tested. VERDICT From his opening line, Iles draws you back into Penn Cage's deep South in this phenomenal trilogy's final novel (after Natchez Burning; The Bone Tree). His heart-racing, enthralling thriller brings to the forefront the racial divisiveness that still plagues this country. [See Prepub Alert, 9/26/16; eight-city tour.]--Joy Gunn, Paseo Verde Lib., Henderson, NV
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
December 1, 2016
Snake Knox, the most sadistic member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as the Double Eagles, has taken the helm, and will do anything to keep the truth hidden. His all-out assault on Penn Cage and his family and friends ratchets up as the murder trial of Penn's father gets underway. Desperate to save Dr. Tom Cage from being convicted of killing his former nurse, Viola Turner, Penn and soldier-turned-author Serenity Butler race to uncover witnesses. The danger for Penn and anyone connected to him intensifies to the extreme as he battles to expose the truth of the decades of atrocities committed by Snake and the Double Eagles. Flowing throughout, the courage and bravery of those who encounter violence born of racial intolerance is continuously tested. VERDICT From his opening line, Iles draws you back into Penn Cage's deep South in this phenomenal trilogy's final novel (after Natchez Burning; The Bone Tree). His heart-racing, enthralling thriller brings to the forefront the racial divisiveness that still plagues this country. [See Prepub Alert, 9/26/16; eight-city tour.]--Joy Gunn, Paseo Verde Lib., Henderson, NV
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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