![]() ![]() In the aftermath of that affair, Viola exiled herself to Chicago.Īs the present-day story begins, Viola has lung cancer and has come home to Natchez to die. Decades before, in 1968, he entered into a forbidden romantic relationship with his nurse, Viola Turner, who is African-American. ![]() Penn's father is Tom Cage, a much-loved physician with a dangerous secret. The narrator of the trilogy is Penn Cage, the lawyer-turned-novelist-turned-mayor of Natchez who first appeared in The Quiet Game (1999). ![]() A lot of people are going to lose a lot of sleep racing through these pages. Iles has always been an exceptional storyteller, and he has invested these volumes with an energy and sense of personal urgency that rarely, if ever, falter. And if the prospect of committing to a narrative spanning 2,300 pages seems daunting, prepare to be surprised. Make no mistake, these three volumes constitute a single story, a vast, intimate epic that must be read in sequence and in full. And now, in Mississippi Blood, Iles concludes what is surely one of the longest, most successfully sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory. One year later, Iles published The Bone Tree, an equally immense continuation that moved the narrative forward into dark and disturbing new territory. In 2014, three years after surviving a near-fatal auto accident, Greg Iles returned to fiction in high style with Natchez Burning, an immense, brooding crime novel rooted in the tragic racial history of the American South. ![]()
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