From #1 New York Moments bestselling author Greg Iles comes the 1st book in his Natchez Burning trilogy-which also contains The Bone Tree as well as the upcoming Mississippi Blood-an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and within a mesmerizing thriller offering Southern attorney and former prosecutor Penn Cage.

Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he understands of duty from his pops, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor provides about Natchez Burning up: A Book been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked at night days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is set to save lots of his dad, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses also to speak in his own defense.

Penn’s search for the reality sends him deep into his father’s past, in which a sexually charged secret lies. Even more chilling, this long-buried sin is only one thread inside a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Increase Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the most powerful guys in the condition. Aided with a dedicated reporter aware of Natchez’s oldest secrets and by his fiancée, Caitlin Experts, Penn uncovers a trail of problem and brutality that places his family squarely in the Two times Eagles’ crosshairs.