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Iles Greg - Cemetery Road A Novel - Paperback
Iles Greg - Cemetery Road A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Don t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel Southern MAN Sometimes the price of justice is a good man's soul. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship betrayal and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town. An ambitious stand - alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in - depth exploration of grief betrayal and corruption Iles's latest calls to mind the late great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy Iles writes with passion intensity and absolute commitment. Washington Post When Marshall Mc Ewan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington DC. But as the ascendancy of a chaotic administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill and he must return home to face the unfinished business of his past. On arrival he finds Bienville Mississippi very much changed. His family's 150 - year - old newspaper is failing; and Jet Talal the love of his youth has married into the family of Max Matheson one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club. To Marshall's surprise the Poker Club has taken a town on the brink of extinction and offered it salvation in the form of a billion - dollar Chinese paper mill. But on the verge of the deal being consummated two murders rock Bienville to its core threatening far more than the city's economic future. An experienced journalist Marshall has seen firsthand how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Joining forces with his former lover who through her husband has access to the secrets of the Poker Club Marshall begins digging for the truth behind those murders. But he and Jet soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield where explosive secrets can destroy far more than injustice. The South is a land where everyone hides truths: of blood and children of love and shame of hate and murder of damnation and redemption. The Poker Club's secret reaches all the way to Washington D. C. and could shake the foundations of the U. S. Senate. But by the time Marshall grasps the long - buried truth about his own history he would give almost anything not to have to face it.
Title: Cemetery Road A Novel
Author(s): Iles Greg
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062824684
Pages: 624 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/4/2020
Description: Don t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel Southern MAN Sometimes the price of justice is a good man's soul. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship betrayal and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town. An ambitious stand - alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in - depth exploration of grief betrayal and corruption Iles's latest calls to mind the late great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy Iles writes with passion intensity and absolute commitment. Washington Post When Marshall Mc Ewan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington DC. But as the ascendancy of a chaotic administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill and he must return home to face the unfinished business of his past. On arrival he finds Bienville Mississippi very much changed. His family's 150 - year - old newspaper is failing; and Jet Talal the love of his youth has married into the family of Max Matheson one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club. To Marshall's surprise the Poker Club has taken a town on the brink of extinction and offered it salvation in the form of a billion - dollar Chinese paper mill. But on the verge of the deal being consummated two murders rock Bienville to its core threatening far more than the city's economic future. An experienced journalist Marshall has seen firsthand how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Joining forces with his former lover who through her husband has access to the secrets of the Poker Club Marshall begins digging for the truth behind those murders. But he and Jet soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield where explosive secrets can destroy far more than injustice. The South is a land where everyone hides truths: of blood and children of love and shame of hate and murder of damnation and redemption. The Poker Club's secret reaches all the way to Washington D. C. and could shake the foundations of the U. S. Senate. But by the time Marshall grasps the long - buried truth about his own history he would give almost anything not to have to face it.
Title: Cemetery Road A Novel
Author(s): Iles Greg
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062824684
Pages: 624 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/4/2020