Mississippi Blood
A Novel
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Mississippi Blood
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Czyta:
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Scott Brick
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Greg Iles
Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN
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.
Tom Cage's murder trial sets a terrible clock in motion, and unless Penn can pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family will be destroyed. 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--a former soldier--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, New York Times bestselling author 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.
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Teil drei der Triologie ist die Coda der Saga um den Kampf der Familie Cage gegen die ultra-rassistischen „Double Eagles“. Eine Bande fanatischer Rednecks, die seit den 60er Jahren erbarmungslos gegen Landsleute mit afrikanischen Wurzeln und deren Unterstützer wüten. Iles wagt es sogar, ihnen den Mord an John F. Kennedy anzuhängen. Das muss man sich angesichts der mythologischen Bedeutung des Attentats in der amerikanischen Geschichte erst mal trauen.
Teil zwei, „Bone Tree“, endete damit, dass Penn Cage’s Vater, ein hoch geachteter Stadt- und Landarzt in Natchez, wegen Mordes vor Gericht gezerrt wurde. Hier setzt die Fortsetzung an. Anklage: Tom Cage, MD, soll die ehemalige Krankenschwester seiner Praxis getötet haben. Sie litt an Krebs im Endstadium. Der Staatsanwalt, Afro-Amerikaner – wie auch die verstorbene Krankenschwester –, wirft ihm Tötung auf Verlangen vor. Nach dem Gesetz des Staates Mississippi machen sich Ärzte damit des Mordes schuldig.
Penn Cage ist überzeugt, dass die Eagles in Wahrheit hinter dem Mord stecken. Jedoch fehlen Beweise. Und sein Vater schweigt. Obendrein benimmt sich sein Anwalt, ein Bürgerrechts-Jurist mit legendärem Ruf, vor Gericht, als habe er komplett seinen juristischen Verstand verloren.
Natürlich versuchen die überlebenden Eagles mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass Wahrheiten von heute und damals vor Gericht ans Licht kommen. Sie scheuen auch nicht davor zurück, die eigenen Blutsbrüder zur Hölle zu schicken (…denn da enden die sowieso), wenn sie zur Gefahr werden. Zudem spielt Penn Cage's Stiefbruder, unehelicher Sohn seines Vaters, gezeugt mit der besagten Krankenschwester, eine wichtige und zwielichtige Rolle.
Ich möchte keinen Spoiler riskieren – aber soviel darf gesagt werden: Iles lockt seine Leser immer wieder aufs Glatteis und legt falsche Spuren. Oft trügt der erste Schein… Zudem bedarf es zumindest rudimentärer Kenntnisse des amerikanischen Justiz-Systems, um den Fortgang der zunehmend überraschend verlaufenden Gerichtsverhandlung verstehen zu können. Gut zwei Drittel der Story spielen nämlich hier, im Gerichtssaal.
"Mississippi Blood" ist weniger drastisch als die ersten beiden Teile, geschweige denn wie "The Devil's Punchball", einem seiner besten Natchez-Romane. Dennoch spannend, vielschichtig und allzeit kritisch mit dem rassistischen Erbe des Südens. Wer "Natchez burning" und "The Bone Tree" gelesen (…oder gehört) hat, darf den dritten Teil keinesfalls verpassen.
"A Novel" heißt übersetzt nichts anderes als "Ein Roman". Genau das ist dieses Buch: ein Roman. Ein Kriminal-Roman…
Ein Kriminalroman
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Greg Ilea hat sich selbst übertroffen
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Meine bevorzugte Gänsehautszene befindet sich im zweiten Downloadteil
Kapitel 25 29:05-31:27
Amazing!
Einspruch, Euer Ehren!
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The thread of the last two volumes is continued fluently and quickly starts with the accusations against Penns father of having murdered his former nurse Viola Turner who came back to Natchez after more than 40 years of absence in order do die in dignity at her place of birth. Her return draws the attention of the Double Eagles to her - a former slinter group of the KKK who fear that she will reveal some old secrets that should never come to the surface. Before she passes away she meets Penns father Dr. Tom Cage. They keep a common secret that is tied to the Double Eagles and reveals the truth of what has happened in the former 60 ties when racial segregation was at its peak. This circumstance is the core of all the epic books. And we need some endurance to learn the real reasons why Viola fled from Natchez, but came back and for what reason.
Penn Cage tries to figure out in all the narrations what secret is hidden from him by his father. For this he starts to investigate and come after a lot of dangerous truths that bring him and his family in serious trouble and beyond.
What I really like is the capability of Mr. Iles that he creates a story that could be definitely true and portrays against the background of more than four decades of racial history. In contrast to the first two volumes the third book for me was more a kind of intimate play. A big part of the book takes place in court and shows the trial against Dr. Tom Cage who is charged with murder to Viola Turner. This was sometimes a kind of challenge for me due to the fact that English is not my native language and so the legal details and long conversations episodes claimed my patience. But at the end I am glad that I stuck to the book and know that these three epic tales really stand out in comparison to a lot of audio books I have listend to so far.
Scott Brick as the narrator carries you through the story in a very positive way. He speaks clearly so I could easily follow the narration and he gives different characters an own personality thanks to his variety of his voice.
Worthy final of a unique trilogy
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