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The Bone Tree: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the second book in his Natchez Burning trilogy-which also contains Natchez Burning as well as the upcoming Mississippi Blood-an epic trilogy of blood and competition, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage.

Past prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Increase Eagles, a KKK sect with ties for some on the subject of The Bone Tree: A Novel of Mississippi’s most powerful men. But the real danger has only started as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the true leader of the Two times Eagles. The puppeteer who in fact controls the terrorist group is usually a man a lot more fearsome: the chief of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox.

The only way Penn can save his father, Dr. Tom Cage-who is definitely fleeing a murder charge aswell as corrupt cops bent on killing him-is either to produce a devil’s discount with Knox or destroy him. While Penn desperately pursues both choices, Caitlin uncovers the true story behind some unsolved civil rights murders that may hold the key towards the Two times Eagles’ downfall. The trail prospects her deep in to the past, into the dark backwaters of the Mississippi River, to a secret killing ground used by slave owners as well as the Klan for over 2 hundred years . a place of terrifying wicked known only as “the bone tree.”

The Bone Tree is an explosive, action-packed thriller filled with twisting intrigue and lethal secrets, a tale that explores the conflicts and casualties that result when the darkest truths of American history come to light. It puts us in the skin of a noble man that has generally fought for justice-now finally pressed beyond his limitations.

Just how far will Penn Cage, the hero we thought we knew, head to protect those he loves?