SOUTHERN MAN

The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road about a man―and a town―rocked by anarchy and tragedy but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.‘A first-rate political thriller…. an unflinching look at the frightening rise of fascism and Trumpism.’ John Grisham‘Greg Iles is one of America’s great storytellers. His books are page-turners with real literary resonance. Southern Man is the latest and the best’ Stephen KingA senseless tragedyWhen a brawl at a rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting in Mississippi Penn Cage finds himself in a country on the brink of eruption. As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel antebellum plantation homes are being torched and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. Panic quickly sweeps through the communities driving the prosperous Southern towns inexorably toward a race war.A rising starBut what might have been only a regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence thanks to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White on social media a Southern war hero funded by an eccentric Mississippi billionaire who seizes the public imagination as a third-party candidate.A country ready to implodeAs his hometown devolves into chaos Penn Cage tears into Bobby White’s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss.