Penn Cage · Book 4
The Death Factory
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN-13
- 9780007569601
- Type
- novella

About this book
An entry in the Penn Cage series that falls between The Devil's Punchbowl and Natchez Burning, The Death Factory was published in 2014 by Greg Iles, arriving five years after The Devil's Punchbowl as a shorter bridging novella into the Natchez Burning trilogy.
Its place in Penn Cage
The Death Factory is book 4 in the Penn Cage series. It follows The Devil's Punchbowl. It is followed by Natchez Burning. 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…
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