Mississippi Blood

A Novel

De: Greg Iles

Narrado por: Scott Brick

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The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present.

Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son.

During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. It is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son--Penn's half-brother--who sets in motion the murder case against his father. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi's violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave.

Tom Cage's murder trial sets a terrible clock in motion, and unless Penn can pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family will be destroyed. Unable to trust anyone around him--not even his own mother--Penn joins forces with Serenity Butler, a famous young black author who has come to Natchez to write about his father's case. Together, Penn and Serenity--a former soldier--battle to crack the Double Eagles and discover the secret history of the Cage family and the South itself, a desperate move that risks the only thing they have left to gamble: their lives.

Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making--one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited.

Forget every author but Greg Iles

I first discovered Greg Iles when my brother loaned me the cd audiobook for Mortal Fear. I have never enjoyed another writer's work as much as I have his. His story structure and character development is superior. Ten members of my family have now had their lives taken over by his books.

Hanging!

I was somewhat disappointed because it leaves lots of unanswered questions. I can see a few book spinoffs.

Loved It

Best of the Penn Cage novels since the first. I am an attorney, and for the most part, I found Iles to be spot on in regarding criminal law and procedure(At least there were far less groan-worthy moments than is typical). The creative license he took was obviously done to advance the drama.

Great ending to a fantastic series.

Excellent! Couldn't stop listening!

One of the best trilogies I've heard in a long time. Scott Brick was magnificent as usual!!!

Best Iles yet: Superb Characterization; Intense Action; Believable Story; Engaging Performance

Being a university professor who has read/listened to all of Greg Iles books, I believe I am qualified to assess this one.
Being so adept at creating multi-dimensional and realistic characters is one of the author's greatest strengths. The familiar characters quickly engage readers eager to "catch up" on what's been happening in their lives since the previous book. Each are so well-developed, both virtuous and flawed, that we believe in them completely. You'll never exclaim in frustration, "Oh Come On!" Over the actions of an unbelievable goody-goody actor's actions.
New characters enter the story organically so we aren't jerked back out of the work by an artificial/static writers device. No back-story per se. We become acquainted with them as with anyone we come to know well through our own experience.