New Releases by Greg Iles

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Greg Iles is one of America’s great storytellers." –Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A first-rate political thriller."–John Grisham, #1 New York Times bestselling author The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel, antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. Panic sweeps through the tourist communities, driving them inexorably toward a race war. But what might have been only a regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence, thanks to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White, a Southern war hero who seizes the public imagination as a third-party candidate. Dubbed “the Tik-Tok Man,” and funded by an eccentric Mississippi billionaire, Bobby White rides the glory of his Special Forces record to an unprecedented run at the White House—one unseen since the campaign of H. Ross Perot. To triumph over the national party machines, Bobby evolves a plan of unimaginable daring. One fateful autumn weekend, with White set to declare his candidacy in all fifty states, the forces polarizing America line up against one another: Black vs. white, states vs. the federal government, democracy vs. Fascism. Teaming with his fearless daughter (now a civil rights lawyer) and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in Parchman Prison, Penn tears into Bobby White’s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world, before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss. In Southern Man, Greg Iles returns to the riveting style and historic depth that made the Natchez Burning trilogy a searing masterpiece and hurls the narrative fifteen years forward into our current moment—where America itself teeters on the brink of anarchy.

Blutiger Einsatz. Penn Cage ist Bürgermeister in Natchez, Mississippi. Um seiner Stadt zu Geld zu verhelfen, hat er auf das Glücksspiel gesetzt. Nun fahren prächtige Dampfschiffe auf dem Fluss, alle zu Kasinos umgebaut. Doch ein Schiff unterscheidet sich von den anderen: die Magnolia Queen, auf der die finanzstärksten Spieler ein- und ausgehen. Ein Freund von Penn Cage hat Beweise, dass an Bord massive Verbrechen verübt werden. Als er kurz darauf brutal ermordet wird, verbeißt Cage sich in den Fall. Bald steht fest: Die Gäste der Magnolia Queen kommen nicht nur wegen des Glücksspiels. Sie wollen Blut sehen - Menschenblut ...

After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe—not from long-buried secrets, or murder... When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn''s best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel. An esteemed family physician, Drew makes a shocking confession that could put him on death row. Penn will do all he can to exonerate Drew, but in a town where the gaze of a landmark cemetery statue—the Turning Angel—never looks away, Penn finds himself caught on the jagged edge of blackmail, betrayal, and deadly violence. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth, this quiet southern town will never be the same.

Zwei Thriller in einem E-Book! Geraubte Erinnerung. David Tennant und Rachel Weiss wissen viel zu viel über ein ultrageheimes Projekt namens "Trinity", Chiffre für eine revolutionäre Technologie, die die Welt für immer verändern wird. Die Erfindung könnte viel Gutes, aber auch großes Unheil bringen, und ihre Schöpfer können der Macht nicht widerstehen, die "Trinity" verspricht. Allein David und Rachel stehen ihnen im Weg, und ein skrupelloses Team von Agenten der NSA wird in Bewegung gesetzt, um sie aufzuspüren und zu eliminieren. Können zwei Menschen darauf hoffen, die Richtung der modernen Wissenschaften zu beeinflussen und mit ihr die Zukunft der gesamten Menschheit? Ewiger Schlaf. Der Geologe John Waters führt ein glückliches Leben mit Frau und Kind in Natchez, Mississippi. Das war nicht immer so, denn Jahre zuvor drohte ihn die obsessive Affäre zu einer anderen Frau zu vernichten. Doch die Frau verschwand und fand einen schrecklichen Tod in New Orleans. Nun, zehn Jahre später, macht John die Bekanntschaft der attraktiven Immobilienmaklerin Eve Sumner, einer Frau, die offenbar jedes Detail aus seiner bewegten Vergangenheit zu kennen scheint. Als auch Eve ums Leben kommt, wird der Geologe in einen Strudel aus Hass und Gewalt verwickelt, der ihn an den Rand des Wahnsinns bringt ...

Ein dunkler Plan in einer noch dunkleren Zeit ... Im Januar 1944 halten vier Menschen das Schicksal der Welt in ihren Händen: ein amerikanischer Arzt, eine deutsche Krankenschwester, ein zionistischer Attentäter und eine junge jüdische Witwe. Im Auftrag des britischen Premierministers Winston Churchill sollen sie eine Mission erfüllen, die ihnen allen den Tod bringen kann. In einem Gefangenenlager in Mecklenburg arbeiten die Deutschen fieberhaft an der Herstellung von Giftgas, dessen Einsatz den Krieg entscheiden soll. Die Briten verfügen ebenfalls über diese Wunderwaffe, und Churchills Plan ist einfach - aber auch perfide: Die vier Auserwählten sollen das britische Giftgas in dem deutschen Lager freisetzen und die Pläne der Nazis zunichtemachen - ohne Rücksicht auf die zumeist jüdischen Gefangenen ... Spannung pur - ein fesselnder historischer Thriller von Greg Iles und laut Autor sein bestes Buch! eBooks von beTHRILLED - mörderisch gute Unterhaltung.

David Tennant und Rachel Weiss wissen viel zu viel über ein ultrageheimes Projekt namens "Trinity", Chiffre für eine revolutionäre Technologie, die die Welt für immer verändern wird. Die Erfindung könnte viel Gutes, aber auch großes Unheil bringen, und ihre Schöpfer können der Macht nicht widerstehen, die "Trinity" verspricht. Allein David und Rachel stehen ihnen im Weg, und ein skrupelloses Team von Agenten der NSA wird in Bewegung gesetzt, um sie aufzuspüren und zu eliminieren. Können zwei Menschen darauf hoffen, die Richtung der modernen Wissenschaften zu beeinflussen und mit ihr die Zukunft der gesamten Menschheit?

Sotva bývalý prokurátor Penn Cage a jeho snoubenka, reportérka a vydavatelka Caitlin Mastersová, vyvázli ze spárů zámožného byznysmena Brodyho Royala – zakladatele ultra tajné odnože Kukluxklanu zvané Dvojití orli – a doslova o vlásek tak unikli smrti, musí čelit další hrozbě. Ukazuje se totiž, že Brody coby vůdce Dvojitých orlů už dávno skončil a ve skutečnosti tahá za nitky někdo úplně jiný. Někdo mnohem nebezpečnější. Šéf Úřadu pro vyšetřování u louisianské státní policie Forrest Knox. Chce-li Penn zachránit svého otce prchajícího před zkorumpovanými policajty, kteří se ho za každou cenu snaží dostat, nemá příliš na vybranou. Musí s Knoxem buď uzavřít ďábelskou dohodu, nebo ho zničit. Caitlin se mezitím pokouší rozkrýt skutečné pozadí série nevyřešených vražd z doby boje za občanská práva a stopy, které sleduje, ji přitom zavedou až do odlehlého temného močálu – k hrůznému místu, jež už po staletí bylo pro mnohé z těch, kteří se na něm ocitli, tím posledním, co v životě spatřili. K legendami opředenému Stromu kostlivců.

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. When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation’s capital lifts him to new heights, Marshall is forced to return home in spite of his boyhood vow. His father is dying, his mother is struggling to keep the family newspaper from failing, and the town is in the midst of an economic rebirth that might be built upon crimes that reach into the state capitol—and perhaps even to Washington. More disturbing still, Marshall’s high school sweetheart, Jet, has married into the family of Max Matheson, patriarch of one of the families that rule Bienville through a shadow organization called the Bienville Poker Club. When archeologist Buck McKibben is murdered at a construction site, Bienville is thrown into chaos. The ensuing homicide investigation is soon derailed by a second crime that rocks the community to its core. Power broker Max Matheson’s wife has been shot dead in her own bed, and the only other person in it at the time was her husband, Max. Stranger still, Max demands that his daughter-on-law, Jet, defend him in court. As a journalist, Marshall knows all too well how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Without telling a soul, he joins forces with Jet, who has lived for fifteen years at the heart of Max Matheson’s family, and begins digging into both murders. With Jet walking the dangerous road of an inside informer, they soon uncover a web of criminal schemes that undergird the town’s recent success. But these crimes pale in comparison to the secret at the heart of the Matheson family. When those who have remained silent for years dare to speak to Marshall, pressure begins to build like water against a crumbling dam. Marshall loses friends, family members, and finally even Jet, for no one in Bienville seems willing to endure the reckoning that the Poker Club has long deserved. And by the time Marshall grasps the long-buried truth, he would give almost anything not to have to face it.

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 McEwan 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.

L''ancien procureur et maire de Natchez, Penn Cage, et sa fiancée la journaliste Caitlin Masters, ont failli périr sous la main du riche homme d''affaires Brody Royal et de ses Aigles Bicéphales, une branche radicale du Ku Klux Klan liée à certains des hommes les plus puissants du Mississippi. Ils ne sont pourtant pas tirés d''affaire. Brody Royal est mort, mais le couple apprend qu''il n''était pas la véritable tête des Aigles. Celui qui tire les ficelles du groupe terroriste est un homme bien plus redoutable encore : le chef du Bureau des enquêtes criminelles de la police d''Etat de Louisiane, Forrest Knox. Pour sauver son père, le Dr Tom Cage — qui fuit une accusation de meurtre et des flics corrompus bien décidés à l''abattre —, Penn n''a que deux solutions : pactiser avec ce diable de Knox ou le détruire. Tandis qu''il poursuit les deux options, sa fiancée continue de lever le voile sur des meurtres non résolus datant de l''époque des droits civiques. Caitlin tient peut-être de quoi faire tomber les Aigles Bicéphales : son enquête plonge loin dans le passé, dans les eaux troubles du Mississippi, jusqu''à un endroit secret utilisé par les propriétaires d''esclaves et le Klan depuis plus de deux siècles, un lieu terrifiant surnommé l''Arbre aux Morts. Dans le deuxième volet de cette trilogie du Mississippi entamée avec Brasier noir, Greg Iles continue d''explorer l''âme torturée de l''Amérique. Et le lecteur, médusé, voit la "petite" histoire d''un homme de justice et de ses proches se mêler à la grande épopée des Etats-Unis, et venir en éclairer d''un jour nouveau certaines des pages les plus sombres. Par ce thriller tentaculaire, Greg Iles prend place parmi les plus ambitieux conteurs américains.

Das große Finale. Penn Cage, der Bürgermeister von Natchez, sieht sein Leben in Trümmern. Die Frau, die er liebte, ist tot – ermordet von Mitgliedern der Doppeladler, jener Organisation von rassistischen Weißen, die seit den sechziger Jahren in Natchez ihr Unwesen treibt. Nun steht auch noch sein Vater, der Arzt Tom Cage, vor Gericht, weil er Viola Turner, eine Schwarze, mit der er eine Affäre hatte, getötet haben soll. Snake Forrest, das Oberhaupt der Doppeladler, tut alles, um Penn und seinen Vater einzuschüchtern. Er lässt auf eine Journalistin, die über den Prozess schreiben will, ein Giftattentat verüben und bedroht Penns Tochter. Penn weiß, dass in seiner Stadt erst Frieden einziehen wird, wenn auch Snake aus dem Weg geräumt worden ist ... Spannend, voller Atmosphäre – ein Meisterwerk. Der große Abschluss der Natchez-Trilogie.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller GoodReads Choice Award semi finalist, Amazon Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2017 selection The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles “Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This is an amazing work of popular fiction.” — Stephen King “One of the longest, most successful sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory… Prepare to be surprised. 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.” — Washington Post The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. 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. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn''s experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son. During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. 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. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi''s violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some 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. 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. Together, Penn and Serenity 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. Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making--one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited.

After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris’s head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later Morris died, though he managed in his last hours to describe his attackers to the FBI. Frank Morris’s death was one of several Klan murders that terrorized residents of northeast Louisiana and Mississippi, as the perpetrators continued to elude prosecution during this brutal era in American history. In Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize finalist and journalist Stanley Nelson details his investigation—alongside renewed FBI attention—into these cold cases, as he uncovers the names of the Klan’s key members as well as systemized corruption and coordinated deception by those charged with protecting all citizens. Devils Walking recounts the little-known facts and haunting stories that came to light from Nelson’s hundreds of interviews with both witnesses and suspects. His research points to the development of a particularly virulent local faction of the Klan who used terror and violence to stop integration and end the advancement of civil rights. Secretly led by the savage and cunning factory worker Red Glover, these Klansmen—a handpicked group that included local police officers and sheriff’s deputies—discarded Klan robes for civilian clothes and formed the underground Silver Dollar Group, carrying a silver dollar as a sign of unity. Their eight known victims, mostly African American men, ranged in age from nineteen to sixty-seven and included one Klansman seeking redemption for his past actions. Following the 2007 FBI reopening of unsolved civil rights–era cases, Nelson’s articles in the Concordia Sentinel prompted the first grand jury hearing for these crimes. By unmasking those responsible for these atrocities and giving a voice to the victims’ families, Devils Walking demonstrates the importance of confronting and addressing the traumatic legacy of racism.

Penn Cage, der Bürgermeister von Natchez, Mississippi, und seine Verlobte, die Chefredakteurin Caitlin Masters, sind einem Anschlag entkommen, hinter dem die Doppeladler stecken, eine rassistische Organisation, die seit den sechziger Jahren ihr Unwesen treibt. Aber die Gefahr ist keineswegs beseitigt. Forrest Knox, ausgerechnet der Chef der State Police, ist der wahre Kopf der Doppeladler. Er will verhindern, dass Penn Beweise vorbringt, welche Morde die Doppeladler begangen haben. Doch Penn hat eine Spur, um die Toten zu finden. Sie führt in die Sümpfe des Mississippi River, zu einem geheimnisvollen Ort, an dem ein ganz besonderer Baum steht. Ein Thriller, der alles mit sich bringt: Hochspannung, großartige Charaktere und tiefe Einblickte in die Abgründe unserer Gesellschaft. »Voller unerwarteter Wendungen ... Dieser grandiose Roman zeigt, dass Kriminalliteratur jeden Aspekt des menschlichen Lebens beleuchten kann.« Washington Post.

The electrifying second installment of the NATCHEZ BURNING trilogy by No.1 New York Times bestseller, Greg Iles

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage. Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense. The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez''s oldest and deadliest secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe. With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves . . . and see justice done, once and for all. Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning marks the brilliant return of a genuine American master of suspense. Tense and disturbing, it is the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.

Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy—Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—comes this e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from Natchez Burning. Death is the end, and if a man doesn''t speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. When a heart attack sends Penn''s father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day. The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA''s office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

‘Extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful’ (Stephen King). The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life – and victims – in the present.

L''improvvisa morte della sorella porta Alex Morse, agente dell''FBI, a scoprire una serie di decessi accomunati da un dettaglio che ha poco di casuale: i coniugi delle vittime si erano rivolti tutti allo stesso avvocato divorzista. È certa di essere sulle tracce di un assassino che ha scelto un modo insolito per uccidere. E che va fermato prima che raggiunga il suo prossimo obbiettivo. Da un autore bestseller sul New York Times, un thriller che non dà tregua.