From #1 NY Occasions bestselling author Greg Iles comes the next book in his Natchez Burning trilogy-which also includes Natchez Burning as well as the upcoming Mississippi Blood-an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, offering Southern attorney Penn Cage.

Past prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Experts, have barely escaped with their lives following being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties for some on the subject of The Bone Tree: A Book of Mississippi’s most effective men. However the actual danger has only started as FBI Particular Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the real leader from the Increase Eagles. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is normally a man far more fearsome: the principle of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox.

The only path Penn can save his father, Dr. Tom Cage-who can be fleeing a murder charge aswell as corrupt cops bent on eliminating him-is either to produce a devil’s bargain with Knox or destroy him. While Penn desperately pursues both choices, Caitlin uncovers the real story behind some unsolved civil privileges murders that may contain the key towards the Double Eagles’ downfall. The trail network marketing leads her deep in to the past, into the black backwaters from the Mississippi River, to a secret killing ground utilized by slave owners and the Klan for over 2 hundred years . a place of terrifying bad known only as “the bone tree.”

The Bone Tree is an explosive, action-packed thriller full of twisting intrigue and dangerous secrets, an account that explores the conflicts and casualties that result when the darkest truths of American history emerged. It places us in the skin of a noble man who has often fought for justice-now finally pushed beyond his limitations.

Just how significantly will Penn Cage, the hero we thought we knew, head to protect those he loves?