Mississippi Blood: A Novel Audiobook
Mississippi Blood: A Novel Audiobook
- Scott Brick
- HarperAudio
- 2017-03-21
- 28 h 9 min
Summary:
The endgame reaches hand for Penn Cage, his family, as well as the enemies bent on destroying them with this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy occur modern-day Natchez, Mississippi-Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores the way the sins of days gone by continue steadily to haunt today’s.
Shattered by grief and thinking of vengeance, Penn Cage views his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably jeopardized, and his about Mississippi Bloodstream: A Novel father, once a paragon of the community that Penn qualified prospects as mayor, is going to be tried for the murder of the former lover. Many terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn’s encounter being a prosecutor in main murder trials, his father has frozen him from the trial preparations–preferring to risk dying in jail to revealing the reality of the crime to his boy.
During forty years training drugs, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved doctor in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern physique offers secrets known and then himself and a small number of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of the 1960s affair along with his committed African American nurse, Viola Turner. It really is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son–Penn’s half-brother–who models in movement the murder case against his father. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi’s violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus stage between his dad and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell from the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets distributed by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations from the 1960s. The making it through Two times Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of a few of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave.
Tom Cage’s murder trial pieces a terrible clock in movement, and unless Penn may pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family members will be destroyed. Unable to trust anyone around him–not even his very own mother–Penn joins pushes with Serenity Butler, a popular young black writer who has arrive to Natchez to write about his father’s case. Jointly, Penn and Serenity–a previous soldier–battle to split the Double Eagles and find out the secret background of the Cage family members and the South itself, a eager move that risks the only thing they have gone to gamble: their lives.
Mississippi Blood is the enthralling bottom line to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making–one that has kept readers on the advantage of their seats. With piercing understanding, narrative prowess, and a masterful capability to mix history and imagination, New York Moments bestselling author Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in an extremely atmospheric and suspenseful book that delivers the shocking resolution his supporters have eagerly awaited.