Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

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Penn Cage grew up in the rural southern hamlet of Natchez Mississippi learning everything he knows about honor and duty from his father. But when his father is accused of murdering his nurse with whom he worked with in the 1960s Penn goes on a fantastic and danger filled journey for the truth. His quest for answers sends him deep into the past into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the double eagle and a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful man in the state. He must follow a bloody trail that leads back 40 years to one undeniable fact no one black or white young or old brave are young is ever truly safe.