“Natchez Burning,” which hits shelves April 29, is the first in a new Penn Cage trilogy. “He was the one who taught me not to be prejudice … so when he passed on, I felt this immense obligation to deal with this subject with brutal honesty. He was the one who taught me so much about Mississippi history,” Iles said. “When my dad died during that process, I realized I was going to approach it more honestly and more seriously. Jerry Iles, just six months before are what made “Natchez Burning” the book it is now. The car crash that nearly claimed his life and the death of his father, Dr. “But it was still then more of a conventional Greg Iles novel,” he said. “I saw a story that needed to be told.”īy the time Iles was in the car crash, the single novel and had grown into two because Iles said he had realized the scope of the story was so great. “Seven years later, without really intending to, the characters of Penn Cage and Tom Cage, (the latter of which) is inspired by my father, those characters called back to me,” Iles said. When Iles wrote his first Penn Cage novel, “The Quiet Game,” published in 1999, he never expected the book to turn into a series. Suddenly, Iles said, the book became a trilogy and a story that would be treated in a very different way.
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