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Natchez Burning de Greg Iles

Natchez Burning

Autor Greg Iles
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 aug 2015

La suprafață, Natchez pare un oraș marcat de splendoarea sudistă și de respectul pentru tradiție. Sub această mască, cititorul descoperă un abis de brutalitate și corupție. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Greg Iles transformă o dramă de familie într-o frescă istorică violentă. Dr. Tom Cage, un pilon al comunității, este acuzat de uciderea unei foste colege din perioada anilor '60. Fiul său, Penn Cage, trebuie să aleagă. Loialitate sau adevăr? Tensiunea este palpabilă. Tom refuză să se apere, invocând secretul profesional. În umbră, gruparea Double Eagles veghează. Această ramificație a KKK controlează tot. Justiția pare o iluzie în Mississippi. Pe același raft cu The Bone Tree de Greg Iles, această carte se distinge prin ritmul sufocant și complexitatea dilemelor morale. Nu este doar un caz de crimă. Este o investigație despre păcatele nespuse ale unei întregi generații. Natchez Burning rafinează temele explorate de autor în True Evil, dar la o scară mult mai vastă. Dacă în Cemetery Road secretele orașului mic erau motorul acțiunii, aici ele devin o amenințare la adresa supraviețuirii unei familii. Stilul este direct. Propozițiile sunt scurte. Pericolul este iminent. Simțim presiunea timpului și greutatea sângelui vărsat. Este începutul unei trilogii care nu oferă răspunsuri ușoare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780606369459
ISBN-10: 0606369457
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:Bound for Schools & Libraries edition
Editura: TURTLEBACK BOOKS

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută thrillere juridice cu o puternică componentă istorică și socială. Veți câștiga o perspectivă crudă asupra tensiunilor rasiale din sudul Statelor Unite, totul ambalat într-o cursă contra cronometru pentru salvarea onoarei unei familii. Este o lectură densă, pentru cei care apreciază narațiunile complexe unde trecutul refuză să rămână îngropat.

Despre autor

Greg Iles s-a născut în 1960 și trăiește în Mississippi, locul care servește drept decor principal pentru proza sa. Autor a peste șaptesprezece romane, Iles a devenit o voce de referință în literatura de suspans contemporană, ocupând frecvent primele locuri în topul New York Times. Opera sa este marcată de o explorare profundă a istoriei și a dinamicii sociale din Sudul american, reușind să îmbine elementele de thriller polițist cu drama psihologică și critica socială.

Descriere

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`Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful' (Stephen King). `Terrific, engrossing' (Sunday Times) The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life - and victims - in the present.

Descriere scurtă

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.
Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is determined to save his father, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses even to speak in his own defense.
Penn's quest for the truth sends him deep into his father's past, where a sexually charged secret lies. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only one thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the most powerful men in the state. Aided by a dedicated reporter privy to Natchez's oldest secrets and by his fiancée, Caitlin Masters, Penn uncovers a trail of corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles' crosshairs.
With every step costing blood and faith, Penn is forced to confront the most wrenching dilemma of his life: Does a man of honor choose his father or the truth?

Textul de pe ultima copertă

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.
Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense.
The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez's oldest and deadliest secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe.
With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves . . . and see justice done, once and for all.
Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning marks the brilliant return of a genuine American master of suspense. Tense and disturbing, it is the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.

Recenzii

“A whopping tale, filled with enough cliff-hanging crises for an old summer-long movie-serial. Yet there are still enough unresolved matters at the end of Natchez Burning for two already-promised sequels.” — Wall Street Journal
“Every single page of Natchez Burning is a cliffhanger that will keep you devouring just one more chapter before you put it down.” — Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller
“Natchez Burning is just flat-out terrific . . . its themes about race, violence, tradition, and the eternal smoldering anger of the South [bring] to mind Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner . . . Greg Iles is back and truly better than ever.” — Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down . . . This is an amazing work of popular fiction.” — Stephen King
“A searing tale of racial hatreds and redemption in the modern South, courtesy of Southern storyteller extraordinaire Iles. . . . A memorable, harrowing tale.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An absorbing and electrifying tale that thriller fans will be sure to devour.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Much more than a thriller, Iles’s deftly plotted fourth Penn Cage novel doesn’t flag for a moment . . . This superlative novel’s main strength comes from the lead’s struggle to balance family and honor.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“It’s been half a decade since Iles’ last Penn Cage novel, but, oh boy, was it worth the wait! . . . This beautifully written novel represents some of the author’s finest work, with sharper characterizations and a story of especially deep emotional resonance, and we eagerly await volume two.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Natchez Burning excels as a contemporary thriller . . . utterly—and chillingly—believable. Epic.” — Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
“Natchez Burning obliterates the artificial distinction between genre and literary fiction with passion, grace and considerable style. This is Greg Iles at his formidable best. It’s good to have him back.” — Washington Post
“The thriller of the year, of the decade even, is Natchez Burning... The first of a projected trilogy, Natchez Burning is Penn Cage’s fourth outing. But you don’t need to read its predecessors to be wholly consumed by this wonderful book. Buy, read, and marvel.” — The Times (London)