Driven by anger, fear, love, friendship, greed, ambition or revenge, even his supposedly good guys bend, or completely ignore, the law in pursuit of their own versions of the truth.ĭon’t be distracted by its twists, turns, multi-narrators and action scenes which stretch the imagination. Racial violence, arson, rape, torture and murder, all in horrific detail, feature from the start of what is as much an historical document centred on racial politics in the deep south as it is a novel. All roads lead to the Bone Tree, a legendary killing site at the heart of a swamp which conceals far more than remains.Īs with Natchez Burning, you’ll need a strong stomach. Former Texas Ranger Walt Garrity wants to protect his old friend. Penn’s fiancée, journalist Caitlin Masters, is chasing the biggest story of her career. FBI special agent John Kaiser sees Tom Cage as key to unlocking the mystery of the assassination of John F Kennedy. Even his allies have objectives very different from his own. Penn finds himself battling a family of racist criminals, their inner corps of killers, corrupt police and politicians whose power reaches the highest levels of state government.
In a town and a state where the past is never truly buried, its secrets turn lethal
Attempts to clear him leave Penn wondering if he ever knew his father at all. Klu Klux Klan killings from the 1960s resurface to claim new victims and leave former prosecutor Penn Cage, now mayor of Natchez, facing a son’s worst nightmare with his doctor father accused of murder and a fugitive from justice.
Two pages in you’ll have your answer – Greg Iles will have sucked you back into this epic saga of blood, race, family and justice set in the steamy heart of America’s south, and you won’t be able to put it down! When you pick up the housebrick that is the second part of the Penn Cage trilogy which started with the electrifying Natchez Burning, your first thought will probably be the same as mine: ‘Can I face another 850 pages of conspiracy theories surrounding America‘s obsession with the murders of the Kennedy brothers and its probable, but unproven, links to race hate, big business, corrupt officials and organised crime, knowing that there will be a final denouement of at least the same length?’
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