Natchez Burning
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 800
- ISBN-13
- 9780007304868
- Type
- novel
About this book
Natchez Burning is number 4 in the Penn Cage series, published in 2014 at 800 pages, written by Greg Iles as the opening volume of the Natchez Burning trilogy, the series' center of gravity around Klan violence and Penn's own father's entangled past.
Key facts about Natchez Burning
Natchez Burning is a novel by Greg Iles. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 800 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Natchez Burning. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007304868 to find the main one.
Natchez Burning is book 5 of 8 in the Penn Cage series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Quiet Game (1999).
Additionally, Greg Iles writes World War Two as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Southern Man is the latest published Greg Iles book on file, from 2024.
About Greg Iles
Greg Iles was an American thriller writer from Natchez, Mississippi, whose fiction returned repeatedly to his home region's unresolved history of civil-rights-era violence. He debuted in 1993 with Spandau Phoenix, a World War Two-linked thriller connected to his second novel, Black Cross, before finding his signature material in 1999 with The Quiet Game, introducing prosecutor-turned-mayor Penn Cage. See every Greg Iles book in order.
Its place in Penn Cage
Natchez Burning is book 5 in the Penn Cage series. It follows The Death Factory. It is followed by The Bone Tree. See the full Penn Cage reading order.
Penn Cage is a former Houston prosecutor who returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and becomes mayor, only to keep getting pulled into the town's buried history -- civil-rights-era murders, Ku Klux Klan violence, and the entangled loyalties of families (including his own father's) who lived through it. Greg Iles began the series in 1999 with The Quiet Game, then set it aside for a decade to write standalone thrillers before returning to Penn in 2005's Turning Angel and 2009's The Devil's Punchbowl. The…
Editions
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