--- product_id: 21719015 title: "Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage, 4)" price: "€ 43.34" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nl/products/21719015-natchez-burning-a-novel-penn-cage-4 store_origin: NL region: Netherlands --- # Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage, 4) **Price:** € 43.34 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage, 4) - **How much does it cost?** € 43.34 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nl](https://www.desertcart.nl/products/21719015-natchez-burning-a-novel-penn-cage-4) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN 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 legal 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, a haunting civil rights cold case. 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 Southern Gothic corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles' crosshairs. Review: “Natchez Burning” is easily the best of the Penn Cage novels I’ve read… so far. - I just finished reading Greg Iles’ “Natchez Burning” for the second time, and I thought I’d add my voice to the other 4,500-plus people who have reviewed this superb crime novel on desertcart.com. “Natchez Burning” is the first in a trilogy of novels about a series of fictional unsolved civil rights-era murders in Natchez, Mississippi and its surrounding areas. It is also the fourth in a series of novels featuring protagonist Penn Cage, a former Houston, Texas prosecutor, a published novelist, and currently the mayor of Natchez, Mississippi. Cage suddenly finds himself confronted with the fact that his father, Dr. Tom Cage – the town’s most respected and beloved physician – is about to be arrested for murdering Viola Turner, an African American nurse who worked for him forty years earlier, and with whom he briefly carried on a torrid love affair. Penn Cage believes his father didn’t do it, but his father refuses to answer any questions about what happened to Viola. Nothing seems clear about the case. It somehow appears to be linked to a series of unsolved, forty-year-old racial killings by members of an ultra-violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan. Penn Cage can be sure of only one thing: the local district attorney, a bitter personal and political enemy of his, is determined to send Dr. Tom Cage to prison for the rest of his life, as an act of revenge against his son... I have read several of Greg Iles’ novels, and I have enjoyed each one tremendously. I am especially impressed with the books in his Penn Cage series. Iles populates his novels with fascinating characters, engrossing and suspenseful plots and sub-plots, and plenty of twists, turns and surprises. Iles writes with a wonderful flair. His prose is smooth, literate, and easy to read, and it keeps getting better with each book. “Natchez Burning” is easily the best of the Penn Cage novels I’ve read… so far. It took me only four days to devour its 789 pages. This is crime fiction at its best. Most highly recommended. Review: Good book, but not over. - I've never read this author before and the subject matter is something that's always interested me. It entwines the present with the past, the crimes of the segregationist south refuse to stay buried. Although I grew up during the civil rights movement and the time of segregation, it's something I've never experienced personally. It was something on the news from another part of the country which may have been another part of the world. It always amazes me to read about the cruelty inflicted by one group on another when they know they can get away with it. The story is of justice and retribution a half century later. I wasn't familiar with the characters, but there's plenty of references to earlier plot lines to keep you current with their situation. The story was quick moving and hard to put down. What frustrated me was that the characters were always doing something that you knew would not end well...like the teenager that knows there's a man-eating tiger on the loose and goes out exploring armed with a pair of nail scissors. I guess it takes dangerous situations to move the plot along and keep those pages turning, but I wanted to scream..."Don't do that, you know they're homicidal maniacs!" I didn't realize that this was the first of what is to be a trilogy, which explains the ending. It just felt like it ended a few hundred pages too soon, with too many loose ends and no way to tie them all into a neat little bow. I'm glad there's more to come because I was really disappointed after investing so many hours in a book and then having essentially a non-ending. Of course when the next edition comes out I will have to reread this one to refresh the story line. I actually enjoy reading a big book the second time because I pick up so much more detail and then I am ready to move on to the installment. Overall, a good read, just don't expect a complete ending just a resolution to the most intense situation. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #93,793 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #179 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #371 in Political Fiction (Books) #432 in Southern Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 12,705 Reviews | ## Images ![Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage, 4) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Xde80GgfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Natchez Burning” is easily the best of the Penn Cage novels I’ve read… so far. *by M***S on September 5, 2017* I just finished reading Greg Iles’ “Natchez Burning” for the second time, and I thought I’d add my voice to the other 4,500-plus people who have reviewed this superb crime novel on Amazon.com. “Natchez Burning” is the first in a trilogy of novels about a series of fictional unsolved civil rights-era murders in Natchez, Mississippi and its surrounding areas. It is also the fourth in a series of novels featuring protagonist Penn Cage, a former Houston, Texas prosecutor, a published novelist, and currently the mayor of Natchez, Mississippi. Cage suddenly finds himself confronted with the fact that his father, Dr. Tom Cage – the town’s most respected and beloved physician – is about to be arrested for murdering Viola Turner, an African American nurse who worked for him forty years earlier, and with whom he briefly carried on a torrid love affair. Penn Cage believes his father didn’t do it, but his father refuses to answer any questions about what happened to Viola. Nothing seems clear about the case. It somehow appears to be linked to a series of unsolved, forty-year-old racial killings by members of an ultra-violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan. Penn Cage can be sure of only one thing: the local district attorney, a bitter personal and political enemy of his, is determined to send Dr. Tom Cage to prison for the rest of his life, as an act of revenge against his son... I have read several of Greg Iles’ novels, and I have enjoyed each one tremendously. I am especially impressed with the books in his Penn Cage series. Iles populates his novels with fascinating characters, engrossing and suspenseful plots and sub-plots, and plenty of twists, turns and surprises. Iles writes with a wonderful flair. His prose is smooth, literate, and easy to read, and it keeps getting better with each book. “Natchez Burning” is easily the best of the Penn Cage novels I’ve read… so far. It took me only four days to devour its 789 pages. This is crime fiction at its best. Most highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book, but not over. *by A***R on July 6, 2014* I've never read this author before and the subject matter is something that's always interested me. It entwines the present with the past, the crimes of the segregationist south refuse to stay buried. Although I grew up during the civil rights movement and the time of segregation, it's something I've never experienced personally. It was something on the news from another part of the country which may have been another part of the world. It always amazes me to read about the cruelty inflicted by one group on another when they know they can get away with it. The story is of justice and retribution a half century later. I wasn't familiar with the characters, but there's plenty of references to earlier plot lines to keep you current with their situation. The story was quick moving and hard to put down. What frustrated me was that the characters were always doing something that you knew would not end well...like the teenager that knows there's a man-eating tiger on the loose and goes out exploring armed with a pair of nail scissors. I guess it takes dangerous situations to move the plot along and keep those pages turning, but I wanted to scream..."Don't do that, you know they're homicidal maniacs!" I didn't realize that this was the first of what is to be a trilogy, which explains the ending. It just felt like it ended a few hundred pages too soon, with too many loose ends and no way to tie them all into a neat little bow. I'm glad there's more to come because I was really disappointed after investing so many hours in a book and then having essentially a non-ending. Of course when the next edition comes out I will have to reread this one to refresh the story line. I actually enjoy reading a big book the second time because I pick up so much more detail and then I am ready to move on to the installment. Overall, a good read, just don't expect a complete ending just a resolution to the most intense situation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 800 Pages Absolutely Flew By *by S***S on August 10, 2014* Natchez Burning is a sweeping epic of Civil Rights in Natchez, Mississippi, from the 1960s to present day and is the first of three books in a series. Don’t be afraid of the length – Natchez Burning is absolutely gripping and reads like a John Grisham thriller…making you forget it’s 800 pages long! Through his “off the books” investigation into the accusations against his pillar of the community father (Dr. Tom Cage), Penn encounters the Double Eagles*, a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan that terrorized Natchez in the 1960′s. He teams up with Henry Sexton, a local reporter who has been investigating several unsolved 1960′s murders that were rumored to have been committed by the Double Eagles and is pulled into a dangerous world where the terror of the KKK and its offshoots is alive and well today. I was immediately enthralled with Natchez Burning – there is so much going on right out of the gates that I wondered where Iles was going to go with the story for another 600 pages! Not to worry, he found TONS of places to go! Not only is Penn struggling to save his father (and dealing with the emotional issues that come with realizing a parent may not be the pinnacle of integrity that everyone thinks), but you also have the KKK and the Double Eagles, local police, the Mafia (Carlos Marcello), prominent businessmen, the FBI, civil rights activists, and the politics of rebuilding New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. All these elements fight it out in a cesspool of corruption and lawlessness right out of the Wild West – how can this story not be completely gripping?! The book’s lesson from all of this: “none of us truly knows anybody”. Iles does a great job of completely immersing the reader in that world. I could feel the fear, danger, and evil jumping off the pages. No one is safe and the “take the law into your own hands” atmosphere that you think was confined to the Civil Rights era is actually thriving in Iles’ present day. Iles also poses some fascinating “what if” scenarios (events that probably didn’t happen, but possibly could have) about real life events, specifically the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK. This was a shrewd move considering how much speculation and how many conspiracy theories still exist about these three murders, giving the reader the feeling that Natchez Burning‘s version of events is in the realm of the possible. I’m a total sucker for these kinds of things and this aspect of the book reminded me of bit of Stephen King’s 11/22/63, one of my all-time favorites. Despite its length, Natchez Burning was a book I did not want to put down and I can’t wait for the next installment of the series (supposedly coming out in the next year or two). Natchez Burning will no doubt make my Best Books of the Year list for 2014. *Obviously, I was curious if the Double Eagles or a similar group may have existed in real life in 1960′s Mississippi….so I took to Google and found an article outlining the real-life events and people featured in Natchez Burning. The fictional Double Eagles are based on a KKK splinter cell called The Silver Dollar Group, fictional Concordia Beacon journalist Henry Sexton is based on the real life Concordia Sentinel journalist Stanley Nelson, and the fictional Albert Norris (owner of Norris’ Music Emporium and one of the story’s central murder victims) is based on the real life shoe store owner and murder victim, Frank Morris. The fact that Natchez Burning is based on real events and people takes it to a whole other level of fascinating for me! 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