Penn Cage · Book 5
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.
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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