Cemetery Road: A Novel - Softcover

Iles, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006282466X ISBN 13: 9780062824660

Publisher: William Morrow Large Print, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover

“I never meant to kill my brother. I never set out to hate my father. I never dreamed I would bury my own son . . .”

When his father falls gravely ill, successful D.C. journalist Marshall McEwan reluctantly returns to his childhood home. Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. His family’s newspaper is failing, and Jet Talal, the love of his youth, has married a man with ties to the Bienville Poker Club, which has offered economic salvation to the town by luring a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill. But then two murders rock Bienville to its core, threatening far more than the city’s economic future.

Joining forces with his former lover, Marshall begins digging for the truth. But he and Jet discover that Mississippi soil is a minefield where explosive secrets can be far more destructive than injustice. By the time Marshall grasps the long-buried truth about his own history—and the woman he loves—he would give almost anything not to have to face it.

Cemetery Road is an unforgettable story of greed and desire, jealousy and murder, forgiveness and damnation.

About the Author

Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of thirteen New York Times bestsellers, and his new trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage, protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil’s Punchbowl. Iles’s novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries. He lives in Natchez with his wife and has two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Large Print
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 006282466X
• ISBN 13: 9780062824660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1040