Mississippi Blood: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MR5M61D |
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| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. 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. 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. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of a 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. Cage either takes the fall for them or takes his secrets to an early grave. Most terrifying of all, Dr. 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. 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. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. In some way that Penn
POWERFUL, INTELLIGENT, GUTSY -- And A Fitting End For A Phenomenal Trilogy Scott E. High I've been an avid reader for over 60 years now, collecting thousands of (primarily) hard cover books written by authors who have impressed me with their story-telling skills, their intelligent plots and sub-plots, their cast of (usually unique) supporting characters, their ability to paint vivid pictures to help immerse me in their stories, their artful presentation of surprising (and sometimes shocking) twists and . What did I just read? I should have stopped at The Bone Tree Desert Mambo There's a point in this novel in which Penn Cage's father tells our hero that he is not clear on what kind of a movie they are in: he tells Penn they are not in a mystery--they are in a Western. And in some ways that is true (and not in good ways). But overall, I think the author did not know what kind of a book he was writing: a thriller? A mystery? A "serious" southern novel? In any case, this lack of focus makes . Jonathan M Goldman said Are you kidding me?. It would take a better write than me, or Greg Iles, to describe my profound disappointment at the ending of this book. I dedicated countless hours of my precious time on earth to the more than "Are you kidding me?" according to Jonathan M Goldman. It would take a better write than me, or Greg Iles, to describe my profound disappointment at the ending of this book. I dedicated countless hours of my precious time on earth to the more than 2000 pages of this trilogy, to have the author choose to end it with something that wouldn't even make a b-list Hollywood movie from the forties. I found myself cursing and stomping about my house, and not in a good way. I wou. 000 pages of this trilogy, to have the author choose to end it with something that wouldn't even make a b-list Hollywood movie from the forties. I found myself cursing and stomping about my house, and not in a good way. I wou