Southern Man von Greg Iles
A Novel

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 976 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Verlag: HarperCollins USWilliam Morrow Paperbacks
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780062824868

"Greg Iles is one of America's great storytellers. His books are page-turners with real literary resonance.Southern Manis the latest and the best."-Stephen King, #1New York Timesbestselling author

"A first-rate political thriller.... an unflinching look at the frightening rise of fascism and Trumpism."-John Grisham, #1New York Timesbestselling author

"Iles delivers an insightful, ambitious, and satisfying saga. This is a high water mark in a strong series."-Publishers Weekly

"This is a genuinely terrifying book because of its plausibility-Iles perfectly captures the tinderbox that America is in the post-Trump era. . . .This is a perfectly done political thriller with genuine resonance. Astonishing."-Kirkus (starred review) onSouthern Man

"This astonishingly good novel is very much a product of its time, a story of violence and racial unrest in the aftermath of the Trump presidency. . . Politically charged and written in rich, visually evocative prose, this is Iles at his reader-thrilling best."-Booklist (starred review) onSouthern Man

"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 PostonCemetery Road

"Pure reading pleasure. This guy knows the deep south as well or better than any other novelist."-Stephen King onCemetery Road

"Iles... has made Mississippi his own in the same way that James Lee Burke has claimed Cajun country and Michael Connelly has remapped contemporary Los Angeles... They will be talking about this one for a quite a while."-Booklist(starred review) onCemetery Road

"A sweeping tale of family dysfunction [and] sexually charged secrets."-Publishers Weekly(starred review) onCemetery Road

"It is impossible to turn away. It's like binge-watching your favorite TV drama, and you don't dare take your eyes off the screen for fear of missing out on another revelation.Cemetery Roadis full of them."-Bookreporter.com

"Imagine William Faulkner and Stieg Larsson had a love child.Natchez Burningcombines the pace of Larsson'sThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoowith a Faulkneresque, bone-deep knowledge of Mississippi in all its beauty and racial torment."-AARP Magazine

"Every single page ofNatchez Burningis a cliffhanger that will keep you devouring just one more chapter before you put it down to eat, work, or go to bed.... This ambitious, unique novel is the perfect marriage of a history lesson and a thriller."-Jodi Picoult

"Iles carries it off with style, intelligence and passion...The Bone Treeis filled with menace, betrayal, [and] unexpected plot twists. . . [and] is a very American epic-in-progress that leaves us waiting, none too patiently, for whatever revelations are still to come."-Washington Post

"Extraordinary. . . .'Great Expectations'transplanted to an American South laced with comparably gothic overtones. . . .The Bone Treeestablishes Iles as this generation's William Faulkner."-Providence Journal

"Absolutely compelling.... A beautifully constructed story [and] some extremely fine writing."-Booklist(starred review) onThe Bone Tree

"Greg Iles'bestselling Penn Cage saga-most famously his"Natchez Burning"trilogy and now his latest, SOUTHERN MAN [are] thrillers with the stakes raised by Iles'exploration of the racism that has long ruled the South and haunted the nation."-Los Angeles Times

"Astonishing.... The most timely book of 2024."-Dayton Daily News

"A masterstroke from a master writer... a contemporary and prescient political thriller."-Tom Mayer,Oxford Magazine

"Crime writing of a rare order...As much a trenchant state-of-the-nation novel as a mesmeric page-turner."-Financial Times

An instantNew York Timesbestseller!

"Greg Iles is one of America's great storytellers."-Stephen King, #1New York Timesbestselling author

"A first-rate political thriller."-John Grisham, #1New York Timesbestselling author

The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Natchez Burningtrilogy andCemetery 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 theNatchez Burningtrilogy, 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.

InSouthern 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.

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Greg Iles has spent most of his life in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel,Spandau Phoenix, was the first of manyNew York Timesbestsellers. His Natchez Burningtrilogy continued the story of Penn Cage, the protagonist ofThe Quiet Game, Turning Angel,and #1New York TimesbestsellerThe Devil's Punchbowl. Iles's novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries. He is a member of the lit-rock group The Rock Bottom Remainders, lives in Natchez with his wife, and his three children.

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