Título: Cemetery Road: A Novel
Autor: Greg Iles
Sinopse: Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN
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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Cemetery Road: A Novel”, de Greg Iles, publicado pela editora Harper Large Print, em 2019 e com 1040 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Harper Large Print
Páginas: 1040
Ano: 2019-03-05
Edição: Large type / Large print
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 006282466X
ISBN13: 9780062824660
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Harper Large Print convidam o leitor a imergir em narrativas que transitam entre o suspense psicológico, dramas familiares intensos e histórias históricas marcadas por conflitos humanos profundos. A experiência de leitura é marcada por um ritmo que ora acelera em thrillers de investigação, ora se detém em relatos de relações interpessoais complexas, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e segredos do passado. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por tramas que exploram tanto o íntimo das personagens quanto contextos sociais amplos, como períodos históricos turbulentos ou ambientes isolados, oferecendo um equilíbrio entre tensão narrativa e desenvolvimento emocional.
