If anyone knows Death, Penn Cage does. He, himself, has sent 16 men to their fate as District Attorney, and killed one by his own hand. And now his beautiful young wife is gone too, leaving him alone with their young daughter. He decides to go home; home means Natchez, Mississippi, and the ghosts of his past. There he stumbles over a long-forgotten crime - the death of a black man in '68 - which could explain not only his own life, but that of the whole community. A community which seems to have been playing the quiet game for the last 30 years...
Greg Iles wurde 1960 in Stuttgart geboren. Sein Vater leitete die medizinische Abteilung der US-Botschaft. Mit vier Jahren zog die Familie nach Natchez, Mississippi. Mit der "Frankly Scarlet Band", bei der er Sänger und Gitarrist war, tourte er ein paar Jahre durch die USA. Mittlerweile erscheinen seine Bücher in 25 Ländern. Greg Iles lebt heute mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in Natchez, Mississippi.
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